Dr. Hanson,<\/em><\/p>\n Years ago, especially right after 9 \/ 11, I enjoyed your essays on NRO. One piece I especially liked was your column, in late 2001, titled (if memory serves), “I’m Glad We’re Not Fighting Us.”<\/em><\/p>\n Pardon my brusqueness, but what the hell has happened to you?<\/em><\/p>\n You’ve turned into a babbling, incoherent “Trumpkin,” in my view.<\/em><\/p>\n Look…President Trump may well turn out to be the worst President in US history. The “word on the street” here in DC is that he might resign by the end of the year. Don’t believe me? Google “Sarah Palin 2009” or check out FiveThirtyEight’s recent article on Vice President Mike Pence.<\/em><\/p>\n C’mon, dude…get your intellectual “mojo” back and get off this bizarre Trump idolatry.<\/em><\/p>\n You’re way better than that.<\/em><\/p>\n Take care,<\/em><\/p>\n Daniel Weir<\/em><\/p>\n Washington, DC<\/em><\/p>\n —————————————————–<\/p>\n Dear Angry Reader Daniel Weir,<\/p>\n Thank you for your angry reader post.<\/p>\n I do not think anything happened to me.<\/p>\n In summer 2016 we were confronted with two candidates. One was more conservative than the other and far more likely to make conservative executive branch and judicial appointments; the other was committed to a four-year extension of the eight years that had seen the debt double, GDP never rise to 3%, zero interest rates, a foreign policy in shambles (Iran deal, Libya bombing, failed reset with Putin, needless withdrawal of peacekeepers from Iraq, ISIS, Chinese aggressions, etc.), and identity politics and racial and ethnic tensions at an all-time high. The result was that the Democrats under Obama lost 1,100 elections, and now are a minority in the state legislatures and governorships, the House, the Senate, and hold neither the presidency nor the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n To quote yourself, \u201cwhat the hell happened with you\u201d not to see what Obama did to your party? Do you think Pajama Boys, Black Lives Matter, foul-mouthed politicians, a Tom Perez, Kathy Griffin, and Steven Colbert, Occupy Wall Street, and storming campuses are really going to convince those in Flint and Youngstown that Democrats are for the working classes? Those with nasal accents in Silicon Valley and Dupont Circle should not be running a national party, whatever their wealth and connections.<\/p>\n Hillary Clinton, running on her loathing of the \u201cdeplorables\u201d and \u201cirredeemables,\u201d and facing a spate of scandals (email server, Clinton Foundation quid pro quos, sweet-heart speaking deals, etc.) assumed she could xerox Barack Obama\u2019s identity politics blueprint; she could not and lost (in the logic of identity politics, she may have been a pandering progressive, but she was still a 69-year-old white woman).<\/p>\n What is hard to understand about that? And given FiveThirtyEight\u2019s record in predicting a sure-thing Trump loss in 2016, why would I believe them or the majority of polls that assured us that Hillary\u2019s \u201cblue wall\u201d was not in danger?<\/p>\n The chances of a Trump resignation are zero; the Republicans have won four straight House special elections. And the Trump agenda on energy production, conservative appointments, restoration of deterrence abroad, deregulation, and immigration reform move ahead. If he gets Obamacare and tax reform, he will be difficult to beat in 2020, should he run.<\/p>\n Again, \u201cpardon my brusqueness [Daniel] but what the hell has happened to you\u201d: after 9\/11 you seemed to have been empirical; now you seem to be a captive of your emotions and groupthink.<\/p>\n You are better than that.<\/p>\n Take care,<\/p>\n Victor Hanson<\/p>\n Selma, CA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From an Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson, Years ago, especially right after 9 \/ 11, I enjoyed your essays on NRO. One piece I especially liked was your column, in late 2001, titled (if memory serves), “I’m Glad We’re Not Fighting Us.” Pardon my brusqueness, but what the hell has happened to you? You’ve turned into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Gu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11622,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-01-23-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":10322,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 01-23-19","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Re: IMPEACH TRUMP Dear Sir: I just read your article in the opinion section of the Albuq. Journal today. I guess I want to ask you if you approve of the President of our Country, the role model for our children, going out there every day\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11357,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-08-22-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":10322,"position":1},"title":"Angry Reader 08-22-2018","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: Treasonous Historians You are liar like Trump and you and your fellow Comprotnik should be breaking rocks in Leavenworth... Trying to undermine Mueller won't work, the report will be devastating. You will be shown just as treasonous, and obviously racist, as the Putin puppet....For memory,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9501,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":10322,"position":2},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"Megan Ring","date":"October 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from a Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson; I left the Republican Party soon after watching eight years of ineffective \"leadership\" by Mitch McConnell, John Bohner, and now Paul Ryan. But the tipping point came when Trump was nominated for president. I cannot belong to a political party that would nominate\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12220,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-28-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":10322,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader 02-28-20","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: Gray Matter Your articles are so offensively lacking in context, thoughtfulness, and reflection on history--basically simpleminded attack ads-- that I am going to erase the National Review\u2019s bookmark from my browser. And there is no case for Trump any more than there was a case\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10363,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10363-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10322,"position":4},"title":"From an Angry Reader: Dr.\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Dr. Hanson, You will not like what I am about to say. It's a good thing we're 3,000 miles apart.\u00a0 Because if I saw you on the street, I'd ... A threat?\u00a0 You decide. Daniel Weir Washington, DC dweir3@icloud.com Reply from Victor Davis Hanson: Dear Second-time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11181,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/5-09-18-angry-reader\/","url_meta":{"origin":10322,"position":5},"title":"5-09-18 Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Wow. You are a moron. How is it, that Comey\u2019s memos, which were his that he wrote, as an FBI agent, which were still his, once he was fired from his FBI job, by an obstructing president, \u201cleaking of classified material\u201d?? 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