{"id":11450,"date":"2018-10-15T11:50:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11450"},"modified":"2018-10-15T11:50:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T18:50:39","slug":"who-and-what-threaten-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/who-and-what-threaten-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Who and What Threaten the Constitution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n

D<\/span>onald Trump on occasion can talk recklessly. He is certainly trying to \u201cfundamentally transform\u201d the United States in exactly the opposite direction from which Barack Obama promised to do the same sort of massive recalibration. According to polls (such as they are), half the country fears Trump. The media despises him. Yet Trump poses no threat to the U.S. Constitution. Those who since 2016 have tried to destroy his candidacy and then his presidency most certainly do.<\/p>\n

When, and if, we ever lose our freedoms, it will not likely be due to a boisterous Donald Trump, damning \u201cfake news\u201d at popular rallies, or even by being greeted with jarring \u201clock her up\u201d chants\u2014Trump, whom the popular culture loves to hate and whose every gesture and, indeed,\u00a0every inch of his body<\/i>, is now analyzed, critiqued, caricatured, and damned on the national news.<\/p>\n

In general, free societies more often become unfree with a whimper, not a bang\u2014and usually due to self-righteous pious movements that always claim the higher moral ground, and justify their extreme means by their self-sacrificing struggle for supposedly noble ends of social justice, equality, and fairness.<\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump on occasion can talk recklessly. He is certainly trying to \u201cfundamentally transform\u201d the United States in exactly the opposite direction from which Barack Obama promised to do the same sort of massive recalibration. According to polls (such as they are), half the country fears Trump. 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