{"id":11194,"date":"2018-05-21T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T06:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11194"},"modified":"2018-05-21T23:04:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T06:04:26","slug":"how-democracies-end-a-bureaucratic-whimper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-democracies-end-a-bureaucratic-whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"How Democracies End: A Bureaucratic Whimper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p>One strange trait of the die hard NeverTrump Republicans and progressives is their charge that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. Trump, as is his wont, says a lot of outrageous and weird things. But it is hard in his 16 months of rule to find\u00a0<i>any\u00a0<\/i>proof that Trump has subverted the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the furor is over what we are told what Trump might do, or what Trump has said, or which unsavory character in Europe likes Trump. These could be legitimate worries if they were followed by Trump\u2019s anti-democratic concrete subversions. But so far, we have not seen them. And there has certainly been nothing yet in this administration comparable to the Obama-era efforts to curb civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/05\/21\/how-democracies-end-a-bureaucratic-whimper\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One strange trait of the die hard NeverTrump Republicans and progressives is their charge that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. Trump, as is his wont, says a lot of outrageous and weird things. But it is hard in his 16 months of rule to find\u00a0any\u00a0proof that [&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":[1099,117,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Uy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9906,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-metaphysics-of-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":11194,"position":0},"title":"The Metaphysics of Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review Paradox: How does a supposedly bad man appoint good people eager to advance a conservative agenda that supposedly more moral Republicans failed to realize? 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