{"id":11425,"date":"2018-09-27T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2018-09-27T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:07:20","slug":"the-truths-behind-our-current-political-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-truths-behind-our-current-political-turmoil\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truths Behind Our Current Political Turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n

A<\/span>re there any guiding principles that can make sense of the sensational news that now overwhelms the senses seemingly every hour?<\/p>\n

What is common to blaring headlines about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, an anti-Trump \u201cresistance\u201d buried deep in the permanent bureaucracy, and the improper behavior by top officials of the Obama administration, FBI, and Department of Justice?<\/p>\n

There are a few subtexts to all these spectacles, scandals, and melodramas.<\/p>\n

First, those in power had never imagined that Donald Trump either could or should win the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

That reality emboldened federal employees to take risks and step over the line in efforts to ensure that Trump would be humiliated at the polls. Officials assumed that incoming President Hillary Clinton would either overlook or reward their zealotry.<\/p>\n

FBI kingpins such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter Strzok either broke the law or made a mockery of the FBI\u2019s ethical guidelines. They acted as if Clinton would win, or should have won, the election.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Are there any guiding principles that can make sense of the sensational news that now overwhelms the senses seemingly every hour? What is common to blaring headlines about the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearings, an anti-Trump \u201cresistance\u201d buried deep in the permanent bureaucracy, and the improper behavior by […]<\/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-2Yh","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":11425,"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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