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After a Decade of Unhinged Anti-Trump Furor, the Public Is Tuning Out the Shrill, Hysterical Left

Like the deleterious effects of inflation that eventually render a currency worthless, the nonstop hectoring, pontification, and distortion makes all such criticisms ineffective.

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President Trump looks on during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21, 2025 at Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

President Trump won the 2024 election in part because the left’s hysterical style of attacking him no longer worked.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Mr. Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. He is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of 'The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won,' from Basic Books.

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