{"id":11241,"date":"2018-06-25T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2018-06-25T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:17:09","slug":"why-this-immigration-psychodrama-will-also-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-this-immigration-psychodrama-will-also-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This Immigration Psychodrama Will Also Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">A<\/span>month from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged. We will hear of another Trump official cornered and driven out from a liberal-owned Beltway or New York City restaurant. An unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) will rant some more about impeachment.<\/p>\n<p>And then the current hysteria over the border detainments will be filed, and go the way of the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/01\/12\/shithole-gate-toxic-double-standards\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\u201cs\u2014hole countries\u201d frenzy<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>or\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/06\/22\/the-jacket-and-the-jackasses\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Melania\u2019s jacket melodrama<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already been through the dizzying odyssey of legal suits in three states over supposedly fraudulent voting machines, the nullification of the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/12\/19\/politics\/electoral-college-donald-trump-vote\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Electoral College effort<\/a><\/u>, the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/01\/19\/politics\/trump-inauguration-protests-womens-march\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">meltdown on Inauguration Day<\/a><\/u>, the\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/lacrossetribune.com\/news\/opinion\/joel-mathis-and-ben-boychuk-is-donald-trump-already-running\/article_e02a9f8a-6405-57b9-b49a-f718b9585a71.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Emoluments Clause tizzy<\/a><\/u>, the\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/07\/05\/trump-and-25th-amendment-constitution-or-coup.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">25th Amendment con<\/a><\/u>, the various\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2017\/06\/14\/fire-mueller-end-witch-hunt\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Russian collusion hysterias<\/a><\/u>, the leaked phone call to\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-australia-prime-minister-phone-call-2017-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">the Australian prime minister<\/a><\/u>, the Michael Wolff\u00a0<em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/01\/10\/michael-wolff-trump-big-favor\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Fire and Fury<\/a><\/u><\/em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/01\/10\/michael-wolff-trump-big-favor\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">fantasies<\/a><\/u>, the Dudley Do-Right James Comey\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/04\/19\/the-ever-shrinking-james-comey\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">pre-indictment book tour<\/a><\/u>, and all the surreal assassination chic stories, from\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2017\/05\/30\/kathy-griffin-beheads-donald-trump-photo-tyler-shields\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Kathy Griffin\u2019s beheading photo<\/a>\u00a0<\/u>to the Shakespearean troupe\u2019s\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2017\/06\/trump-julius-ceasar-shakespeare-park-left-trump-obsession-making-art-boring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">ritual stabbing of Trump<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/06\/25\/why-this-immigration-psychodrama-will-also-pass\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Amonth from now there will be a new manufactured news story that Donald Trump is savage, represents an existential danger, or is unhinged. We will hear of another Trump official cornered and driven out from a liberal-owned Beltway or New York City restaurant. An unhinged Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) [&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":[111,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Vj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9795,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-game-of-thrones\/","url_meta":{"origin":11241,"position":0},"title":"Our Game of Thrones","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review The Trump administration\u2019s flurry of reversing the earlier flurry of Obama executive orders and the Left\u2019s hysterical response is proving a sort of strategic Game of Thrones. 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