Tag: HAMMER

JOSH HAMMER: Bourbon Street Massacre Is What ‘Globalize The Intifada’ Looks Like

As woke illiberalism replaced living liberalism as the vibrant ideology of the American left, the State of Israel found itself increasingly marginalized. Never mind that modern Israel was founded and has been politically dominated for 30 years by a group of left-wing socialists. Never mind that Harry Truman, the iconic liberal Democratic president, became the […]

JOSH HAMMER: Trump’s Landslide Victory Signals The Death Of Obamaism

In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreement in 2020. Similarly, in a just world, Hollywood’s top studios would be bidding for the rights to make the film right now. The greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump, the past and […]

JOSH HAMMER: Trump Has Proven He’s The People’s Billionaire

If there’s one data point above all else that suggests former President Donald Trump and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance are headed for a landslide victory on Nov. 5, it’s this: 40 points. with a close difference Voting averageAmericans are more likely to believe that the country is currently on the wrong path rather than […]

JOSH HAMMER: The Collapse Of Kamala Harris

On July 26, in the aftermath of the Democratic Party’s ruthless midsummer coup against its own democratically elected presidential candidate, this column features the unintelligent and abusive Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s president. He predicted that elevating him to the quota would “backfire spectacularly.” More specifically, I wrote: “Effectively, the path to 270 […]

JOSH HAMMER: It’s Time For A New Commander In Chief — Just Ask Israel

Within minutes of Hamas jihadists breaching the Israeli border, October 7, 2023and as the largest genocide of Jews since the Holocaust began, Western leftists and other defenders of the Palestinian Arab genocide cause rallied around the argument that “this did not happen in a vacuum.” . This claim is not even acknowledged by armchair revolutionaries […]

JOSH HAMMER: The Amy Wax Inflection Point For ‘Elite’ Higher Education

For longer than I have been alive, higher education has been a cesspool of anti-Americanism, censorious leftism, and cultural radicalism. Moral corruption is and always has been particularly acute in the Ivy League and other putatively “elite” institutions. The pro-Hamas “protests” that have rocked college campuses since October 7 suggest that the jihadist anarchy seen […]

JOSH HAMMER: Why Are The Nutjobs Trying To Kill Political Opponents All Left-Wingers?

In August 2012, MSNBC's left-wing enthusiast Floyd Lee Calkins Armed with a handgun and a spare magazine, he drove to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the socially conservative Family Research Council and planned the shooting. Caulkins is Later citations Mr. Caulkins, a former lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has argued that the […]

JOSH HAMMER: Jack Smith, Democrat Lawfare Complex Hit Man

The modern Democratic Party operates like a mafia family. Like the Mafia, the Democratic Party has a certain hierarchy. There are big bosses at the top of the food chain, like the Obamas and the Clintons. There are trusted advisers, like Attorney General Merrick Garland and outside super lawyer Marc Elias. There are caporegiers, or […]