{"id":11290,"date":"2018-07-24T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2018-07-24T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T20:03:28","slug":"russianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/russianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Russianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Trump\u2019s critics need a scapegoat to explain why they haven\u2019t managed to vanquish him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span class=\"drop\">R<\/span><\/strong>ussianism is a psychological malady in which furor at Donald Trump\u2019s election victory and presidency \u2014 and the ensuing depression resulting from the inability to abort it \u2014 finds release through fixation on Russia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Extremely vigorous in our outreach\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The recent orthodox progressive and Democratic view of Russia \u2014 until the appearance of Donald Trump \u2014 was largely what it had been throughout the Cold War: one of empathy for Russia and understanding of its dilemmas, and shame over supposed right-wing American paranoia over a bogus \u201cRussian bear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/07\/russianism-democrat-scapegoating-over-trump-victory-and-presidency\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Trump\u2019s critics need a scapegoat to explain why they haven\u2019t managed to vanquish him. Russianism is a psychological malady in which furor at Donald Trump\u2019s election victory and presidency \u2014 and the ensuing depression resulting from the inability to abort it \u2014 finds release through fixation on Russia. \u2018Extremely [&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":[1092,375,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2W6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12059,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-russia-investigation-rested-on-a-house-of-cards\/","url_meta":{"origin":11290,"position":0},"title":"Trump Russia investigation rested on a house of cards","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Please\u00a0read\u00a0the\u00a0following\u00a0article\u00a0by\u00a0my\u00a0colleague\u00a0Paul\u00a0Gregory\u00a0in\u00a0The\u00a0Washington\u00a0Times A review of the public record demonstrates that the Russia investigation rested on a house of cards assembled by high-level officials to prevent\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s election or to ensure that his administration would fail. 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The economy continues to deliver near-record-low unemployment, wage gains, strong\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":10399,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/putins-playthings\/","url_meta":{"origin":11290,"position":3},"title":"Putin\u2019s Playthings","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Putin will do anything to advance Russia\u2019s interests because his country is in terrible shape. \u00a0 About a year ago, Donald Trump Jr. met with a mysterious Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. 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