{"id":11206,"date":"2018-06-04T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:27:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:27:57","slug":"california-and-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/california-and-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"California and Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>I share some of the sentiments of Jay Nordlinger\u2019s Corner post expressing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/conservative-ideas-and-the-question-of-confidence\/\">confidence<\/a>\u00a0that some day in the future there may be hope for California conservatism. That\u2019s why I continue to live in the house that I grew up in, despite vast changes in the nature of the rural community I was born into. But I would take sharp issue with Jay\u2019s statement that current critics of the direction of the state are somehow either prejudicial or dispirited:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of us conservatives have long written it off. California is too changed: too brown, too illegal, too bloated, too listless. All the good people have left, and all the bad people have stayed. You know the rap. Usually, we don\u2019t put it this crudely, but this is what it amounts to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, I don\u2019t believe that conservatives\u2019 worry amounts to any of that at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/california-and-conservatism\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review I share some of the sentiments of Jay Nordlinger\u2019s Corner post expressing\u00a0confidence\u00a0that some day in the future there may be hope for California conservatism. That\u2019s why I continue to live in the house that I grew up in, despite vast changes in the nature of the rural community I [&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":[1187,16,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2UK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10828,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/disruptive-politics-in-the-trump-era-yuval-levin-or-victor-davis-hanson\/","url_meta":{"origin":11206,"position":0},"title":"Disruptive Politics in the Trump Era: Yuval Levin or Victor Davis Hanson?","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By John Fonte| December 15, 2017 American Greatness The crucial question for the American Right today, as it has been for at least 60 years, is: What is the nature of its confrontation with modern liberalism? 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