{"id":11368,"date":"2018-08-28T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11368"},"modified":"2018-08-28T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T01:15:07","slug":"a-post-trump-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-post-trump-world\/","title":{"rendered":"A Post-Trump World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>t 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.<\/p>\n<p>Yet what might happen should Trump be removed from office, either by impeachment leading to conviction or resignation or by federal indictment from Robert Mueller?<\/p>\n<p>Given the evidence so far, the results could be civil chaos, and for a variety of reasons:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--square ad-unit--inline\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\">\n<div class=\"hide-for-subscribers\"><strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">The Trump Record<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Had Trump misled his base and not fulfilled his campaign promises, he would have little popular support. Had he tanked the economy and started a war, he would be polling in the 20s rather than the mid to lower 40s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/08\/donald-trump-impeachment-unlikely-unwise\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 what might happen should Trump [&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-2Xm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10340,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-morning-joe-tweets\/","url_meta":{"origin":11368,"position":0},"title":"Trump\u2019s Morning Joe Tweets","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson National Review's The Corner: The one and only. 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All that said, when reading through the latest release of the Page-Strzok archive, one is struck not\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":11740,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/did-trump-really-do-all-that\/","url_meta":{"origin":11368,"position":2},"title":"Did Trump Really Do All That?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Peggy Noonan, apparently like many, believes that Trump\u2019s occasional callousness and crassness are unprecedented. And they have so befouled the political landscape that he has spawned rude and crude leftwing imitators. The result allegedly is the vile language of the \u201cmean girls\u201d such as\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":11434,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mattis-is-more-valuable-than-ever\/","url_meta":{"origin":11368,"position":3},"title":"Mattis Is More Valuable Than Ever","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Michael O\u2019Hanlon presented\u00a0recently a persuasive argument why Defense Secretary James Mattis should stay on the job for at least the duration of Trump\u2019s first term in order to finish his current initiatives \u2014 apparently in response to unsubstantiated rumors that Mattis\u2019s reputation has grown\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;James Mattis&quot;","block_context":{"text":"James Mattis","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/james-mattis\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11258,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/history-as-nothing-much-at-all\/","url_meta":{"origin":11368,"position":4},"title":"History as Nothing Much at All","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Former CIA director Michael Hayden recently tweeted a picture of a Nazi extermination camp at\u00a0Auschwitz-Birkenau, with his commentary: \u201cOther governments have separated mothers from children.\u201d The suggestion was that industrialized death on an unprecedented scale was somehow similar to the temporary detention of children\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;CIA&quot;","block_context":{"text":"CIA","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/cia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9390,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-trump-could-win\/","url_meta":{"origin":11368,"position":5},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Trump Could Win","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"With four more months until Election Day, be prepared for chills and spills. 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