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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nReviewed in the United States on June 7, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n Thus David Horowitz, in a note penned as this book went to press, anticipated this question: how will Trump meet the challenge of the virus-predicated lockdown, now aggravated by the Left\u2019s violent (and lockdown-undermining) assault on America\u2019s institutions?<\/span><\/p>\n A few days after Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win<\/em> was published, the answer came: millions of jobs were created in May 2020, more than any analyst predicted. (They predicted job losses.) That would have been impossible had the economy\u2019s fundamentals not been as sound as they were in early March\u2014which they wouldn\u2019t have been had Trump not been at the helm of state for the preceding three Marches.<\/span><\/p>\n Following up his best-selling Big Agenda: President Trump\u2019s Plan to Save America<\/em>, Horowitz surveys the landscape of Trump\u2019s vindication, recording the genuine (i.e., anti-\u201cprogressive\u201d) progress America has made in the face of past onslaughts and those that threaten us a season away from the general election.<\/span><\/p>\n For divide, sabotage, resist is the battle plan of the anti-American contingent we call the Left. Truth means nothing to them; power, everything. They align with every movement that holds out the promise of \u201ctransforming\u201d America: environmentalism, Islam, solicitude for criminals (homegrown or foreign trespassers).<\/span><\/p>\n The English word \u201cblitz\u201d contracts the German Blitzkrieg, \u201clightning war,\u201d which entered our vocabulary during the Second World War. It makes for a snappier book title, but the reference to war should not be lost, given Horowitz\u2019s own words.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTraditionally [Horowitz notes] Democrats have approached politics as a form of war conducted by other means, while Republicans have entered the political arena as pragmatists and accountants. But the siege of Donald Trump has begun to create a new Republican Party, passionate and combative in defense of a leader they believe has stood up for them, and\u2014equally important\u2014who exceeds them in his appetite for combat. \u2018Populism\u2019 is the term political observers have drawn on to describe this phenomenon. The energy populism creates adds up to the blitz that is described in this book, and that has enabled him to overpower his opposition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n By itself, of course, the German Blitz means \u201clightning,\u201d suggesting the speed of the response. But speed is not to the point: Trump\u2019s counterpunching is, and that\u2019s what Horowitz shines a Klieg light on.<\/span><\/p>\n For three years, Trump\u2019s supporters have put up with what Blitz chronicles: the vicious innuendos against, potty-mouthed slanders of, and outright lies about the man they put in the White House. Feigning fear he wouldn\u2019t accept the results of the 2016 election, Leftists in the academedia complex have demonstrated repeatedly that they wouldn\u2019t and didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s nothing so vile they won\u2019t impute to him, his family, and those who work for him. Modeling a derangement syndrome not yet listed in the Physicians\u2019 Desk Reference, Democrats project onto him the defects they major in. Trump has survived a battery of personal attacks that would have felled lesser men. It\u2019s useful to have its details arrayed compactly in one place. Even those familiar with them need to be reminded of them.<\/span><\/p>\n Passing in review are the stages of the coup that began even before its object materialized: from its inception in the counterintelligence effort against Trump and his campaign (which only Obama\u2019s White House could have authorized), with every vendor of mainstream opinion cheering it on; the rival-financed foreign intelligence, even as foreign collusion was imputed to him; the predicateless FISA \u201cinvestigations\u201d; to the hysterical cries of \u201cillegitimacy\u201d and the importuning of electors to be faithless; the Mueller \u201cinvestigation,\u201d whose \u201cinvestigators\u201d knew they had no foundation; through the Ukrainian phone call fiasco, to the impeachment farce that distracted Washington from the Beijing-spawned and -spread virus that became a global pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n Horowitz reminds readers of the reputation Trump enjoyed long before he announced his candidacy: the businessman who kept an eye on how the world in which he made his fortune works, who never hesitated to voice his disgust with the way the New York\u2019s liberal establishment (of which he had been arguably a member in good standing) ran his city and country (that is, into the ground). The promoter (and terminator) of a string of apprentices was a pop icon, a favorite of the very people who now vilify him.<\/span><\/p>\n Given his record of success, however, especially among African Americans\u2014criminal justice reform (now undoing the mass-incarcerating effects of the legislation Joe Biden co-wrote), the First Step Act, Opportunity Zones, record low unemployment, and so on\u2014the Black column holding up the edifice of vilification is cracking. If it crumbles, costing the Democrats another ten percent of the Black vote, it\u2019s over for them. (For details, see my Amazon review of Robinson and Eberle\u2019s Coming Home: How Black Americans Will Re-Elect Trump<\/em>.) No wonder the Left is going berserk on all platforms, all issues, throwing everything against the wall to see what, if anything will stick. So far, nothing has.<\/span><\/p>\n For those who like numbered lists, Horowitz appends two. The first is \u201cThe Nine Biggest Dangers to America from the Anti-Trump Left\u201d: Resistance; Identity Politics; Open Borders; Green Communism; Communist Health Care; Support for Criminals and Contempt for the Law; Hostility to Religious Liberty and the First Amendment; Support for America\u2019s Enemies; and Attack on America\u2019s Heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n The second: \u201cThe Top Ten Lies the Democrats Have Told You.\u201d Each charge is reversible, and Horowitz reverses them all, concisely and unanswerably: Republicans Are Racists; Democrats Care About Minorities; Republicans Betrayed the Constitution; Democrats Care About Minorities; Slavery and Racism Are America\u2019s True Heritage; The Iran Deal Prevented Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons; Donald Trump Colluded with the Russians; Republicans Are Religious Bigots; The \u201cGreen New Deal\u201d Is Scandinavian Socialism; Israel Occupies Palestine; Single-Payer Health Care Is a Human Right. Even Trumpistas who think they know how to refute these canards will benefit from Horowitz\u2019s refresher course. (For instance, this reviewer.)<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cFrom the beginning of the Resistance to Trump,\u201d as Horowitz concludes Blitz<\/em>, \u201cDemocrat attacks on the president have been attac This November Americans will have an opportunity to repel those attacks. Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win<\/em> provides an armamentarium for the counterattack.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Amazon review by our long-time correspondent. I award it the plenary MavPhil endorsement. Tony coins a brilliancy, 'academedia complex.' I would add a qualifier, 'academented.' 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\nks on America\u2019s foundations: resistance to the results of a fair and free election; abetting a deep state coup to undermine the presidency, and the pursuit of a transparently sham impeachment. All this added up to a campaign of baseless slanders against the nation\u2019s commander-in-chief, worthy of America\u2019s most determined enemies. Collectively these constitute the greatest crime against America committed by its own citizens since the Civil War.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n