‘DEEP CHOICE ELECTION: America’s Survival Is on the Ballot—Ruin or Renewal

This is not a normal election with your typical set of choices for an election.

Victor Davis Hanson warns that these midterms will help determine “the very future existence of the nation.” The choice, he argues, reaches far beyond individual candidates: socialism versus free-market capitalism, intrusive government versus limited government, and institutional destruction versus American renewal. Democrats, Hanson writes, promise to impose nationally the policies already damaging Europe, Canada and California. He challenges voters to ask why more than two million Americans leave blue states each year—and condemns Abdul El-Sayed’s response to a synagogue attack, “Hurt people do hurt people,” as an example of excusing terrorism. With less than three weeks remaining, Hanson’s warning is stark: Americans are choosing the country’s future, and whether