{"id":11316,"date":"2018-08-02T19:08:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T02:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11316"},"modified":"2018-08-02T19:08:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T02:08:32","slug":"the-american-art-of-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-american-art-of-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Art of Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">\u2018M<\/span>ake America Great Again\u201d is the oft-caricatured slogan of the Donald Trump presidency. When Trump was elected, he boasted of jump-starting the economy to achieve an annual economic growth rate of 4 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Experts laughed him off as a na\u00eff who did not understand that structural changes in demography and technology made such growth impossible. Many economists predicted that Trump would crash the stock and job markets.<\/p>\n<p>Yet less than two years into Trump\u2019s presidency, the economy achieved 4 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018. Unemployment rates are at near-record lows. The stock market and oil and gas production are reaching unprecedented heights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/08\/economic-turnaround-under-trump-american-revitalization\/\">Please read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review \u2018Make America Great Again\u201d is the oft-caricatured slogan of the Donald Trump presidency. When Trump was elected, he boasted of jump-starting the economy to achieve an annual economic growth rate of 4 percent. Experts laughed him off as a na\u00eff who did not understand that structural changes in demography [&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-2Ww","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9774,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/prosperity-is-destiny\/","url_meta":{"origin":11316,"position":0},"title":"Prosperity Is Destiny","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review If the economy grows during Trump\u2019s administration, his opposition will dwindle. \u201cTen thousand cuts an awful lot of family ties.\u201d \u2014 Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch When Ronald Reagan entered office in 1981 amid negative economic growth, roaring inflation, and high unemployment, his\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;George W. 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And each week the economic news \u201cunexpectedly\u201d and \u201csurprisingly\u201d improves or stays steady \u2014 in ways well aside from the staples of continued near-record-low peacetime unemployment (3.8 percent), near-record-low minority unemployment, booming annualized GDP (3.1 percent),\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/can-trump-successfully-remodel-the-gop\/","url_meta":{"origin":11316,"position":2},"title":"Can Trump Successfully Remodel the GOP?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review If Trumpism succeeds, it could replace mainstream Republicanism. The Republican-party establishment is caught in an existential paradox. 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