{"id":11404,"date":"2018-09-19T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11404"},"modified":"2018-09-19T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T22:58:37","slug":"the-descent-into-progressive-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-descent-into-progressive-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Descent into Progressive Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he progressive street is leading fossilized Democrats into a sort of collective madness.<\/p>\n<p>The dinosaurs of the party desperately seek relevance by sounding crazier than the new unhinged base that disrupts Senate hearings, loudly pronounces a new socialist future, and envisions octogenarian Maxine Waters as more the future of the party than is septuagenarian Nancy Pelosi. The spectacle is right out of Euripides\u2019s\u00a0<em>Bacchae<\/em>, as the creaky old guard of the polis, Tiresias and Cadmus, dress up in trendy, ridiculous ritual costumes to stumble along after the racing and frenzied young maenads in their lethal courtship of suicidal Dionysian madness.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six-term senator Dianne Feinstein is running against a far more radical Democrat, Kevin de Le\u00f3n,\u00a0in California\u2019s general election. (He added the accent and the \u201cde\u201d to his name in midlife, thereby enhancing his ethnic authenticity.) Feinstein\u2019s current Senate colleague, the junior senator Kamala Harris, has been interrupting, sermonizing, and shouting at the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings in a fashion that generates the media buzz and attention usually reserved for supposedly sober and judicious old hands like Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/09\/progressive-madness-cory-booker-maxine-waters-john-kerry\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The progressive street is leading fossilized Democrats into a sort of collective madness. The dinosaurs of the party desperately seek relevance by sounding crazier than the new unhinged base that disrupts Senate hearings, loudly pronounces a new socialist future, and envisions octogenarian Maxine Waters as more the future of [&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":[1167,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2XW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12014,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-madness-of-progressive-projection\/","url_meta":{"origin":11404,"position":0},"title":"The Madness of Progressive Projection","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Strangest among all the many melodramas of the last two weeks were the blaring headlines that President Trump had dared to talk with the Australian Prime Minister\u2014and referenced the role of foreign governments and in particular Australia in U.S. electoral politics in 2016. 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