{"id":11383,"date":"2018-09-04T13:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11383"},"modified":"2018-09-04T13:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:34:53","slug":"trump-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump on the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">F<\/span>or months, I\u2019ve been driving on different routes through the vast San Joaquin Valley back and forth from the California coast\u2014and through the usually economically depressed small towns on and near the Highway 99 corridor through the Central Valley. The poverty rate in many valley counties is higher than in West Virginia. It is a world away from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, the Stanford or Caltech campus, Malibu, and Pacific Heights.<\/p>\n<p>In an overregulated, overtaxed state of open borders and sanctuary cities, with the nation\u2019s near highest electricity and gasoline prices, and facing a looming state and local pension unfunded liability of well over $300 billion, one might not expect much of an uptick from the supposed Trump economic revival. California\u2019s calcified strategy, after all, is that global lucre pouring into coastal high-tech and finance will more than balance out the economic damage wrought by state government. Sacramento is a sort of court jester to Menlo Park.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout California\u2019s coastal and mountain forests there are waves of dead trees unharvested after a devastating drought. There are large fields of recoverable gas and oil in lots of places that are not being drilled, as well as valuable ores and metals not being mined, and unmatched farmland deprived of its long ago contracted water rights. The idea of a renaissance in the vast rich interior of the state seems implausible\u2014especially when state government is more interested in banning plastic straws and mandating gender-neutral restrooms than in building dams or roads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/09\/02\/trump-on-the-ground\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness For months, I\u2019ve been driving on different routes through the vast San Joaquin Valley back and forth from the California coast\u2014and through the usually economically depressed small towns on and near the Highway 99 corridor through the Central Valley. The poverty rate in many valley counties is higher than [&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-2XB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10275,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mr-nunes-went-to-washington\/","url_meta":{"origin":11383,"position":0},"title":"Mr. Nunes Went to Washington","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson National Review Devin Nunes is subpoenaing former Obama administration officials who may have played a role in inappropriate monitoring of the Trump transition team. 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