{"id":11258,"date":"2018-07-03T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11258"},"modified":"2018-07-03T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:00:20","slug":"history-as-nothing-much-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/history-as-nothing-much-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"History as Nothing Much at All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">F<\/span>ormer CIA director Michael Hayden recently tweeted a picture of a Nazi extermination camp at\u00a0Auschwitz-Birkenau, with his commentary: \u201cOther governments have separated mothers from children.\u201d The suggestion was that industrialized death on an unprecedented scale was somehow similar to the temporary detention of children once their parents have been detained for violating federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Peter Fonda recently advised the following about Trump policy adviser Stephen Miller: \u201cDon\u2019t let the pedophile Stephen Goebbels Miller near those girls separated from their parents.\u201d Comedian Kathy Griffin has asserted that the Trump administration is \u201cquite pro-Nazi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fonda perhaps lacks the subtlety of a Bill Kristol, who implies rather than sledgehammers the Nazi comparisons. When Michael Anton, a writer whose articles often appeared in\u00a0<em>The Weekly Standard<\/em>, went to work for the Trump administration, Kristol reduced Anton to the status of an infamous Nazi lawyer: \u201cCarl Schmitt to Mike Anton: First time tragedy, second time farce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/07\/nazi-comparisons-dumb-down-history\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Former CIA director Michael Hayden recently tweeted a picture of a Nazi extermination camp at\u00a0Auschwitz-Birkenau, with his commentary: \u201cOther governments have separated mothers from children.\u201d The suggestion was that industrialized death on an unprecedented scale was somehow similar to the temporary detention of children once their parents have been [&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":[1159,99,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2VA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11494,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-11-02-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":11258,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 11-02-2018","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Maybe if nazi apologists weren't threatening to lock up their political enemies, or harassing them in their columns, we might see less polarization. Hi Victor, Nice to meet you. You wrote about me in March. Care to discuss? Or are you just up for the pot\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9608,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9608\/","url_meta":{"origin":11258,"position":1},"title":"Comment from an Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from an Angry Reader: I\u2019m sure it was fun exercising your giant brain, but my surprise and I imagine most \u201cliberals\u201d was that enough Americans were willing to vote for what appears to be a sociopath. He disqualified himself for me when he openly espoused physical violence against those\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11815,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-progressive-anti-semitism-and-why-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":11258,"position":2},"title":"Why Progressive Anti-Semitism \u2014 and Why Now?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The\u00a0New York Times International Edition\u00a0recently published an anti-Semitic cartoon of a dachshund with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu. The composite animal was leading a hunched Donald Trump who had on dark sunglasses, as if blind, and a yarmulke. Almost immediately, everyone pointed out that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anti-Semitism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anti-Semitism","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/anti-semitism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11263,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-left-cant-come-to-grips-with-loss-of-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":11258,"position":3},"title":"The Left Can\u2019t Come to Grips with Loss of Power","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There\u2019s no better explanation for the current progressive meltdown. Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) urged protesters to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations, or department stores. Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily\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":12041,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-military-intelligence-complex\/","url_meta":{"origin":11258,"position":4},"title":"The Military-Intelligence Complex","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Much has been written about the so-called Resistance of disgruntled Clinton, Obama, and progressive activists who have pledged to stop Donald Trump\u2019s agenda. The choice of the noun \u201cResistance,\u201d of course, conjures up not mere \u201copposition,\u201d but is meant to evoke the French \u201cresistance\u201d\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11926,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-07-31-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":11258,"position":5},"title":"Angry Reader 07-31-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: I have known hypocrite God mocking scum like you my entire life. Your cynical article mocking the suffering of the BRAVE German people and glorifying the demonic scum jew who CAUSED are are personally offensive to me and every informed TRUTH loving man woman and child\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11258\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}