{"id":11157,"date":"2018-04-24T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11157"},"modified":"2018-04-24T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:56:42","slug":"revolution-and-worse-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/revolution-and-worse-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution and Worse to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">When legal bloodhounds and baying critics fail to take out Trump, what\u2019s next? The Resistance wants Trump\u2019s head \u2014 on the chopping block.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">O<\/span>n the domestic and foreign fronts, the Trump administration has prompted economic growth and restored U.S. deterrence. Polls show increased consumer confidence, and in some, Trump himself has gained ground. Yet good news is bad news to the Resistance and its strange continued efforts to stop an elected president in a way it failed to do in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the aim of the so-called Resistance to Donald J. Trump is ending Trump\u2019s presidency by any means necessary before the 2020 election. Or, barring that, it seeks to so delegitimize him that he becomes presidentially impotent. It has been only 16 months since Trump took office and, in the spirit of revolutionary fervor, almost everything has been tried to derail him. Now we are entering uncharted territory \u2014 at a time when otherwise the country is improving and the legal exposure of Trump\u2019s opponents increases daily.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/04\/trump-resistance-democratic-party-revolutionary-times\/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=7281275850-HDR&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-7281275850-73437989\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review When legal bloodhounds and baying critics fail to take out Trump, what\u2019s next? The Resistance wants Trump\u2019s head \u2014 on the chopping block. On the domestic and foreign fronts, the Trump administration has prompted economic growth and restored U.S. deterrence. Polls show increased consumer confidence, and in some, Trump [&hellip;]<\/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":[1163,1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2TX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12020,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strategies-of-targeting-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":11157,"position":0},"title":"The Strategies of Targeting Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There is no logical Democratic explanation for impeaching Donald Trump. 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