{"id":11389,"date":"2018-09-05T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2018-09-05T12:57:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T19:57:06","slug":"res-ipsa-loquitur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/res-ipsa-loquitur\/","title":{"rendered":"Res Ipsa Loquitur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump in his Twitter storms apparently has no idea that he is winning. The Brett Kavanaugh opening hearing turned into a progressive circus, with shouting would-be Democratic presidential candidates vying with screaming protesters to see who could be the most obnoxious. Ossified senior Democrat senators appeared bewildered how to match or somehow channel the street theater of activists on their left flank and ended up being sort of punked by their own protesters. It will be hard for network news to find a soundbite from all that to look presentable, given that democracy cannot function when elected officials join the mob.<\/p>\n<p>The consecutive Friday and Saturday funerals of the late Aretha Franklin and Senator John McCain reminded us why funerals are not good occasions for politicking and editorializing and end up reflecting poorly on those who try. There are 364 days a year to damn Trump without doing so at a funeral, especially by crowd-pleasing invective from those who call for civility and unity \u2014 and in the past often have shown neither to each other.<\/p>\n<p>New revelations about the strange nexus between Christopher Steele, Bruce Ohr, and a Russian oligarch only remind the public that Robert Mueller is looking for Russian collusion (to the extent that he is now, or ever was really) in all the wrong places. Future unredacted disclosures about the FISA warrants or communications between now-disgraced DOJ and FBI officials will be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The great economic news \u2014 unemployment, GDP growth, Wall Street records, energy production, retail sales, and consumer confidence \u2014 continues to outpace even optimistic predictions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/trump-administration-victories-should-speak-for-themselves\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Donald Trump in his Twitter storms apparently has no idea that he is winning. The Brett Kavanaugh opening hearing turned into a progressive circus, with shouting would-be Democratic presidential candidates vying with screaming protesters to see who could be the most obnoxious. Ossified senior Democrat senators appeared bewildered how [&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-2XH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11263,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-left-cant-come-to-grips-with-loss-of-power\/","url_meta":{"origin":11389,"position":0},"title":"The Left Can\u2019t Come to Grips with Loss of Power","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There\u2019s no better explanation for the current progressive meltdown. 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