{"id":11472,"date":"2018-10-25T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11472"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T18:07:04","slug":"midterm-optics-are-bad-for-progressives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/midterm-optics-are-bad-for-progressives\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">F<\/span>or progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market, and unprecedented energy production. Instead, progressives hope that race and gender questions overshadow pocketbook issues.<\/p>\n<p>The media are fixated on another caravan of foreign nationals flowing toward the United States from Central America. More than 5,000 mostly Honduran migrants say they will cross through Mexico. Then they plan to crash the American border, enter the U.S. illegally, claim refugee status, and demand asylum. Once inside the United States, the newcomers will count on a variety of ways to avoid deportation.<\/p>\n<p>This gambit appears mysteriously timed to arrive right before the U.S. midterms \u2014 apparently to create empathy and sway voters toward progressive candidates supporting a more relaxed immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>Open-borders advocates and progressives assume that if border-security officials are forced to detain the intruders and separate parents who broke the law from their children, it will make President Trump and Republican candidates appear cold-hearted and callous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/midterm-elections-progressive-politics-immigration-protests\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review For progressives, the looming midterm elections apparently should not hinge on a booming economy, a near-record-low unemployment rate, a strong stock market, and unprecedented energy production. Instead, progressives hope that race and gender questions overshadow pocketbook issues. The media are fixated on another caravan of foreign nationals flowing toward [&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":[1202,1167,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Z2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10909,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumps-midterm-known-unknowns\/","url_meta":{"origin":11472,"position":0},"title":"Trump\u2019s Midterm Known Unknowns","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 \u2018Shy\u2019 Trump voters, a booming economy, consumer confidence, looming investigations, anti-Trump frenzy \u2014 all add up to uncertainty in the 2018 elections. \u00a0 Conventional wisdom and media hopes are now combining to warn us of what is shaping up as a Trump wipeout\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DOJ&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DOJ","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/doj\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8048,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-forgotten-americans\/","url_meta":{"origin":11472,"position":1},"title":"The Forgotten Americans","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Obama\u2019s coalition is held together only by his personal mythography. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online Political analysts still are arguing over why the Democratic party was washed away in the midterm election. 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And Farrakhan, by God\u2019s grace, has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew, and I\u2019m here to say your time\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anti-Semitism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anti-Semitism","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/anti-semitism\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8008,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/voting-no-on-obamas-immigration-policies\/","url_meta":{"origin":11472,"position":3},"title":"Voting &#8216;no&#8217; on Obama&#8217;s immigration policies","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ TSM Everyone finds a lesson in the Republican midterm tsunami. One message was that so-called comprehensive immigration reform and broad amnesty have little national public support. Polls have long shown that, but so do last week's election results. 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