{"id":11307,"date":"2018-07-31T11:55:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T18:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11307"},"modified":"2018-07-31T11:55:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T18:55:31","slug":"the-origins-of-our-second-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-origins-of-our-second-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origins of Our Second Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ow, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war?<\/p>\n<p>Almost every cultural and social institution \u2014 universities, the public schools, the NFL, the Oscars, the Tonys, the Grammys, late-night television, public restaurants, coffee shops, movies, TV, stand-up comedy \u2014 has been not just politicized but also weaponized.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s election was not so much a catalyst for the divide as a manifestation and amplification of the existing schism.<\/p>\n<p>We are now nearing a point comparable to 1860, and perhaps past 1968. Left\u2013Right factionalism is increasingly fueled by geography \u2014 always history\u2019s force multiplier of civil strife. Red and blue states ensure that locale magnifies differences that were mostly manageable during the administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, the Bushes, and Clinton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/07\/origins-of-second-civil-war-globalism-tech-boom-immigration-campus-radicalism\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war? Almost every cultural and social institution \u2014 universities, the public schools, the NFL, the Oscars, the Tonys, the Grammys, late-night television, public restaurants, coffee shops, movies, TV, stand-up comedy \u2014 has [&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-2Wn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11665,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/area-45-the-second-american-civil-war-with-victor-davis-hanson\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":0},"title":"Area 45: The (Second) American Civil War? With Victor Davis Hanson","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"On the 210th\u00a0anniversary of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s birthday, some have suggested that United States faces a second \u201ccivil war\u201d \u2013 a conflict over culture, economics, and world view. Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution\u2019s Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, contrasts the hands dealt to Abraham Lincoln and Donald Trump.\u00a0 Listen\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11415,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/are-we-on-the-verge-of-civil-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":1},"title":"Are We on the Verge of Civil War?","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Americans keep dividing into two hostile camps. It seems the country is back to 1860 on the eve of the Civil War, rather than in 2018, during the greatest age of affluence, leisure, and freedom in the history of civilization. The ancient historian Thucydides\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil War","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11366,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ideology-of-statue-smashing\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":2},"title":"The Ideology of Statue Smashing","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 27, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Statue smashing is back in the news. One night last week, University of North Carolina students pulled down \u201cSilent Sam,\u201d a bronze monument to students and faculty of the university who fought as Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. The bronze figure is portrayed\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil War","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10665,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/its-1968-all-over-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":3},"title":"It\u2019s 1968 All Over Again","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review \u00a0 The United States and the world appear to be reliving the language, politics, and global instability of 1968. \u00a0 Almost a half-century ago, in 1968, the United States seemed to be falling apart. \u00a0 The Vietnam War, a bitter and close presidential\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;European Union&quot;","block_context":{"text":"European Union","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/european-union\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11718,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/waging-war-against-the-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":4},"title":"Waging War Against the Dead","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The 21st century is in danger of becoming an era of statue smashing and historical erasure. Not since the iconoclasts of the Byzantine Empire or the epidemic of statue destruction during the French Revolution has the world seen anything like the current war on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil War&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil War","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/civil-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9561,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9561\/","url_meta":{"origin":11307,"position":5},"title":"Comment from an Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from an Angry Reader: You\u2019re a civil guy, and it is appreciated. It would be a waste of time, however, for us to engage in colloquy. I can only hope that you are not spared the results of your short-sightedness, and cheerleading for Donald Trump\u2014the word is apt, despite\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\/11307"}],"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=11307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11309,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11307\/revisions\/11309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}