{"id":11467,"date":"2018-10-22T23:10:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2018-10-22T23:10:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:10:34","slug":"wolves-in-wolves-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wolves-in-wolves-clothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I<\/span>f the New Democratic Party was smart, it would do what the old Democratic Party did long ago: always sound centrist if not conservative in the last weeks of a campaign, get elected, then revert to form and pursue a left-wing agenda for a year or two\u2014and then repeat the chameleon cycle every two to four years.<\/p>\n

But although many Democrats in Trump states still dance the old bipartisan two-step, lots of blinkered progressive wolves don\u2019t even bother to put on the sheep\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n

Evidently, the new progressive and radical Democratic Party is far more honest\u2014or perhaps far more hubristic\u2014than in the past. So what now looks and sounds like a wolf\u00a0is a wolf<\/i>. Democrats have learned nothing and forgotten nothing from 2016. Or rather, they still believe it is 2008 all over again, with a host of wannabe Obamas on the 2020 horizon, all appealing to identity politics,\u00a0Maenad<\/a>\u00a0feminism, and neo-socialism. The hipster theory is that 30 percent of the present electorate will always vote en masse for unapologetic progressives, and that bloc number, due to changing demography and persuasive street theatrics, soon will grow to 50 percent of all voters.<\/p>\n

More to the point, the strategy of hating Trump 24\/7 and fueling the 90 percent negative media coverage of the president had seemed to be a winning hand\u2014given that Trump has usually below 45 percent approval in most polls, and pundits promised a huge blue wave neutering what certainly would be Trump\u2019s last two years in the White House.<\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness If the New Democratic Party was smart, it would do what the old Democratic Party did long ago: always sound centrist if not conservative in the last weeks of a campaign, get elected, then revert to form and pursue a left-wing agenda for a year or two\u2014and then repeat […]<\/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":[1099,1092,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2YX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10231,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-fusion-party\/","url_meta":{"origin":11467,"position":0},"title":"The Fusion Party","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson National Review The Democrats are following the lead of the progressive media \u2014 together, they now form the anti-Trump brigade. 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