{"id":11212,"date":"2018-06-07T11:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T18:53:43","slug":"elites-value-mellifluous-illegality-over-crass-lawfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/elites-value-mellifluous-illegality-over-crass-lawfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Elites Value Mellifluous Illegality over Crass Lawfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Obama defies the Constitution but sounds \u2018presidential.\u2019 Trump follows it but sounds like a loudmouth from Queens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">D<\/span>onald Trump blusters nonstop. He offers contrasting messages about whether, on any given day, he might fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. His tweets are certainly not presidential, at least as the adjective is usually understood.<\/p>\n<p>At perpetual campaign rallies, Trump mocks his critics, caricaturing their voices and slamming them with adolescent epithets like \u201cCryin\u2019 Chuckie Schumer.\u201d He accuses House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of being an enabler of M-13 gang members after she chastised him for calling such psychopaths \u201canimals.\u201d Trump has defined his own uncouthness, which so incenses his opponents, as \u201cthe new presidential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/06\/obama-trump-administrations-elites-value-style-over-substance\/\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Obama defies the Constitution but sounds \u2018presidential.\u2019 Trump follows it but sounds like a loudmouth from Queens. Donald Trump blusters nonstop. He offers contrasting messages about whether, on any given day, he might fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. His [&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":[1161,1156,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2UQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12741,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-faces-a-critical-choice-about-his-political-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":11212,"position":0},"title":"Trump Faces a Critical Choice About His Political Future","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump\u00a0is nearing a crossroads. 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