{"id":11349,"date":"2018-08-21T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2018-08-21T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:32:07","slug":"from-one-psychodrama-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-one-psychodrama-to-another\/","title":{"rendered":"From One Psychodrama to Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">M<\/span>ichael Wolff and his media-hyped blockbuster\u2014that supposedly game-changing landmark of a book\u00a0<i>Fire and Fury<\/i>\u2014are now ancient history.<\/p>\n<p>Fading similarly is Karen McDougal,\u00a0<i>Playboy<\/i>\u2018s 1998 Playmate of the Year, and her\u00a0<i>National Enquirer\u00a0<\/i>grifter lawsuit that was also supposed to destroy the Trump presidency.<\/p>\n<p>We are by now mostly tired with Stormy Daniels and her unhinged lawyer Michael Avenatti, who at least proved more entertaining than his porn-star client.<\/p>\n<p>Consiglieri Michael Cohen, the Trump attorney who secretly taped his own client and apparently has been flipped to Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s side in his veritable war against Trump, is also sliding into the netherworld of no-news coverage and a legal morass.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/08\/20\/from-one-psychodrama-to-another\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Michael Wolff and his media-hyped blockbuster\u2014that supposedly game-changing landmark of a book\u00a0Fire and Fury\u2014are now ancient history. Fading similarly is Karen McDougal,\u00a0Playboy\u2018s 1998 Playmate of the Year, and her\u00a0National Enquirer\u00a0grifter lawsuit that was also supposed to destroy the Trump presidency. We are by now mostly tired with Stormy Daniels [&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":[1196,1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2X3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11573,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/defeat-and-the-dossier-explain-everything\/","url_meta":{"origin":11349,"position":0},"title":"Defeat and the Dossier Explain Everything","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump\u2019s former consiglieri Michael Cohen, along with being charged with tax avoidance and improper business deals, allegedly is guilty also of trying to leverage money and attention by exaggerating his influence with candidate and later President Trump. In other words, Cohen to spec\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Michael Cohen&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Michael Cohen","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/michael-cohen\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11368,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-post-trump-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":11349,"position":1},"title":"A Post-Trump World","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It has been quite a ride since Inauguration Day \u2014 or, rather, from Michael Wolff to Omarosa and Michael Cohen, or from the Emoluments Clause to the 25th Amendment, or from talk of decapitating Trump to talk of blowing up the White House. Yet\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":11854,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-has-become-the-democrats-great-white-whale\/","url_meta":{"origin":11349,"position":2},"title":"Trump Has Become the Democrats\u2019 Great White Whale","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One way of envisioning the Democratic obsessions with Donald Trump is as an addiction. We have seen the initial impeachment efforts; the attempt to get him under the emoluments clause, the Logan Act and the 25th Amendment; the Russian collusion hoax; the Mueller investigation;\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":12055,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate\/","url_meta":{"origin":11349,"position":3},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24\/7.\u00a0The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12260,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-the-uniter\/","url_meta":{"origin":11349,"position":4},"title":"Trump the Uniter?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 23, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0The following is the second excerpt from the revised and updated edition of\u00a0The Case for Trump, out Tuesday from Basic Books. You can read the first excerpt\u00a0here. So\u00a0what had happened to the Democrats\u2019 predicted blue wave that supposedly would rack up huge House\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11800,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-adolescent-progressive-mind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11349,"position":5},"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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