{"id":11263,"date":"2018-07-05T20:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11263"},"modified":"2018-07-05T20:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:30:37","slug":"the-left-cant-come-to-grips-with-loss-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-left-cant-come-to-grips-with-loss-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Can\u2019t Come to Grips with Loss of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">There\u2019s no better explanation for the current progressive meltdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">K<\/span>ey 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.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily think up new ways of characterizing President Trump as a Nazi, fascist, tyrant, or buffoon. Celebrities openly fantasize about doing harm to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>What is behind the unprecedented furor?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/07\/progressive-meltdown-left-cannot-cope-with-loss-of-power\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 think up new ways of [&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":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2VF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11800,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-adolescent-progressive-mind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11263,"position":0},"title":"The Adolescent Progressive Mind","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One of the strangest things about the series of psychodramas that surround the ongoing effort to remove President Trump before the 2020 election is progressive schizophrenia. 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