{"id":11170,"date":"2018-05-01T11:07:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11170"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:07:01","slug":"if-only-hillary-had-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/if-only-hillary-had-won\/","title":{"rendered":"If Only Hillary Had Won . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Leakers and lawbreakers rewarded with Clinton-administration jobs \u2014 and the American public none the wiser about deep-state corruption<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>here are lots of possible counterfactuals to think about had Hillary Clinton won the presidency as all the experts had predicted.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. \u201cStrategic patience\u201d would likely still govern the North Korea dilemma. Fracking would be curtailed. The \u2014 rather than \u201cour\u201d \u2014 miners really would be put out of work. Coal certainly would not have been \u201cbeautiful.\u201d The economy probably would be slogging along at below 2 percent GDP growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/hillary-clinton-presidency-leakers-lawbreakers-rewarded\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Leakers and lawbreakers rewarded with Clinton-administration jobs \u2014 and the American public none the wiser about deep-state corruption There are lots of possible counterfactuals to think about had Hillary Clinton won the presidency as all the experts had predicted. The U.S. embassy would have stayed in Tel Aviv. \u201cStrategic [&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":[1150,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Ua","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10921,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hillarys-sure-victory-explains-most-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":11170,"position":0},"title":"Hillary\u2019s \u2018Sure\u2019 Victory Explains Most Everything","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/\u00a0National Review \u00a0 What exactly were top officials in the FBI and DOJ doing during the election of 2016? 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