{"id":11396,"date":"2018-09-12T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T22:27:23","slug":"is-chaos-an-impeachable-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-chaos-an-impeachable-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Chaos an Impeachable Offense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"article-header__subtitle\">Trump is destabilizing the status quo, as he promised to do. The keepers of the status quo cry foul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">U<\/span>ntil 2017, there were certain political assumptions that most people no longer really believed but also preferred not to question \u2014 given the likely animus from the so-called bipartisan establishment, a naked entity which, by convention, we all agreed was splendidly clothed.<\/p>\n<p>China could freely cheat on trade, and the U.S. could take the commercial hit, because one day its misbegotten riches would force liberalization and thereby make China a member in good standing of the family of democratic nations. After 40 years, we are still waiting on the promised democratic transformation \u2014 at great cost to the industrial and manufacturing heartland of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/trump-destabilizing-status-quo-is-chaos-impeachable-offense\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Trump is destabilizing the status quo, as he promised to do. The keepers of the status quo cry foul. Until 2017, there were certain political assumptions that most people no longer really believed but also preferred not to question \u2014 given the likely animus from the so-called bipartisan establishment, [&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-2XO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11578,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-dangers-of-asymmetry\/","url_meta":{"origin":11396,"position":0},"title":"The Dangers of Asymmetry","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It is strange how suddenly a skeptical Wall Street, CEOs, and even university and think-tank policy analysts are now jumping on the once-taboo Trump bandwagon on China: that if something is not done to stop China\u2019s planned trajectory to global hegemony, based on its\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":9570,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strange-silence-of-bernie-sanders\/","url_meta":{"origin":11396,"position":1},"title":"The Strange Silence of Bernie Sanders","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review The core of Bernie Sanders\u2019s maverick campaign was \u201cnot business as usual.\u201d For a year he offered a comprehensive critique both of status quo Democratic politics and the corrupt culture of elite Washington in uncompromising fashion. 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