Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Since 2020, over 100,000 criminals have been released early from state prisons—and most have little fear that their present and future crimes will earn them another prison sentence. Half the state’s births are paid for through state-supplied welfare coverage. And now the homeless without addresses or IDs can determine elections. In sum, import poverty; romanticize illegal immigration; demonize the middle class; drive out private-sector capital; and exempt elites from the consequences of their own ideology—and you’re left with a state where democracy dies, along with everything else.
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