{"id":11200,"date":"2018-05-24T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11200"},"modified":"2018-05-24T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T18:28:49","slug":"the-great-german-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-great-german-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great German Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution<\/p>\n<p>Every 20 to 50 years in Germany, things start unraveling. Germans feel aggrieved. Ideas and movements gyrate wildly between far left and far right extremes. And the Germans finally find consensus in a sense of victimhood paradoxically expressed as national chauvinism. Germany\u2019s neighbors in 1870, 1914, 1939\u2014and increasingly in the present\u2014usually bear the brunt of this national meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Germany is supposed to be the economic powerhouse of Europe, its financial leader, and its trusted and responsible political center. Often it plays those roles superbly. But recently, it\u2019s been cracking up\u2014in a way that is hauntingly familiar to its European neighbors.\u00a0On mass immigration, it is beginning to terrify the nearby nations of Eastern Europe. On Brexit, it bullies the British. On finance, it alienates the southern Europeans. On Russia, it irks the Baltic States and makes the Scandinavians uneasy by doing business with the Russian energy interests. And on all matters American, it increasingly seems incensed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/great-german-meltdown\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Hoover Institution Every 20 to 50 years in Germany, things start unraveling. Germans feel aggrieved. Ideas and movements gyrate wildly between far left and far right extremes. And the Germans finally find consensus in a sense of victimhood paradoxically expressed as national chauvinism. Germany\u2019s neighbors in 1870, 1914, 1939\u2014and increasingly in [&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":[168,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2UE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":760,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/let-sleeping-germans-lie\/","url_meta":{"origin":11200,"position":0},"title":"Let Sleeping Germans Lie","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The newly elected French Socialist president, Francois Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of \"growth,\" not Germanic \"austerity,\" should be the new European creed. 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