{"id":11196,"date":"2018-05-22T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2018-05-22T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T03:05:31","slug":"the-trump-rationale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-trump-rationale\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis\u00a0Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">His voters knew what they were getting, and most support him still.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>hy exactly did nearly half the country vote for Donald Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Why also did the arguments of Never Trump Republicans and conservatives have marginal effect on voters? Despite vehement denunciations of the Trump candidacy from many pundits on the right and in the media, Trump nonetheless got about the same percentage of Republican voters (88\u201390 percent) as did McCain in 2008 and Romney in 2012, who both were handily defeated in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of reasons voters knew what they were getting with Trump and yet nevertheless assumed he was preferable to a Clinton presidency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/05\/trump-rationale-why-voters-chose-him-and-support-him-now\/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&amp;utm_campaign=0d515f73e4-HDR&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-0d515f73e4-73437989\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis\u00a0Hanson \/\/ National Review His voters knew what they were getting, and most support him still. Why exactly did nearly half the country vote for Donald Trump? Why also did the arguments of Never Trump Republicans and conservatives have marginal effect on voters? Despite vehement denunciations of the Trump candidacy from many pundits on [&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":[1161,1],"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":11734,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-progressives-should-know-about-trump-voters\/","url_meta":{"origin":11196,"position":0},"title":"What Progressives Should Know About Trump Voters","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ CNN CNN)Progressives wonder how in the world could anyone still support President Donald Trump. So here are ten reasons why more than 40% of the electorate probably does -- and will. 1.\u00a0Voters appreciate that the economy is currently experiencing\u00a0near record-low peacetime unemployment,\u00a0record-low minority unemployment, and virtual\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11811,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge-victor-davis-hanson-on-the-case-for-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":11196,"position":1},"title":"Uncommon Knowledge Victor Davis Hanson on \u201cThe Case for Trump\u201d","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"How did blue-collar voters connect with a millionaire from Queens in the 2016 election? 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Yet there are subtle but increasing indications that his approval among other African Americans may be reaching historic highs for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11039,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-syndromes\/","url_meta":{"origin":11196,"position":3},"title":"Trump Syndromes","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Trump creates hysteria, both rabid antipathies and fervent support. General chaos surrounds President Trump. Few dispute that. All argue over the origins, causes, and nature of these wild reactions to our president. The Left\u2019s Hatred Take the Left\u2019s loathing of Trump that arises from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mitt Romney&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mitt Romney","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mitt-romney\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11515,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/gop-failed-to-fight-dems-health-care-scare-tactics-in-midterms\/","url_meta":{"origin":11196,"position":4},"title":"GOP failed to fight Dem&#8217;s health-care scare tactics in midterms","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill Exit polls showed that health care was the top factor in motivating voters in the 2018 election. Democrat candidates successfully stoked fears that the Republicans would\u00a0end\u00a0coverage of pre-existing conditions. 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