{"id":11348,"date":"2018-08-21T13:30:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11348"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:30:43","slug":"was-the-pre-trump-world-normal-or-abnormal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/was-the-pre-trump-world-normal-or-abnormal\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Pre-Trump World Normal or Abnormal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">M<\/span>uch of the controversy that surrounds the policies of Donald Trump can be explained as a reaction to the past. He was either clumsily disrupting the sacrosanct or trying to resurrect what was lost.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, what you feel about Trump is inseparable from what you think of the world before Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Was the status quo, especially in the years between 2009 and 2017, normal or abnormal \u2014 at least compared with the prior half century?<\/p>\n<p>Take the challenge of China. We are now locked in a veritable trade war with the Chinese. Each side escalates with a threatened new round of tariffs. The subtexts of the conflict range from Chinese military ascendency to patronage of nuclear North Korea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/08\/trump-disrupted-american-transformation-into-lead-from-behind-nation\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Much of the controversy that surrounds the policies of Donald Trump can be explained as a reaction to the past. He was either clumsily disrupting the sacrosanct or trying to resurrect what was lost. In other words, what you feel about Trump is inseparable from what you think 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":[1161,275,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2X2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12703,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/donald-trump-counterrevolutionary\/","url_meta":{"origin":11348,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump, Counterrevolutionary","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Until Donald Trump\u2019s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized\u2014with the United States increasingly its greatest and most \u201cwoke\u201d advocate. 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