{"id":11509,"date":"2018-11-12T21:41:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11509"},"modified":"2018-11-12T21:41:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:41:47","slug":"progressive-politics-are-not-really-progressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressive-politics-are-not-really-progressive\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Politics Are Not Really Progressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdcp-drop-cap-default\">S<\/span>ome progressives lamented the\u00a0<i>apparent\u00a0<\/i>defeat of radical progressive African-American candidates such as gubernatorial nominees Stacey Abrams of Georgia and Florida\u2019s Andrew Gillum by blaming allegedly treasonous white women. Apparently white women did not vote sufficiently\u00a0<i>en bloc\u00a0<\/i>in accordance with approved notions of identity politics tribalism.<\/p>\n<p>According to this progressive orthodoxy, being female, gay, or minority trumps everything else. But, of course, no one believes in such mythical notions of solidarity, least of all progressives themselves.<\/p>\n<p>White women were expected in Michigan, for example, to vote against a sterling African-American senatorial candidate John James, whose r\u00e9sum\u00e9 was far more impressive than his victorious opponent, incumbent Senator Debbie Stabenow.<\/p>\n<p>There was no such thing as minorities on the collective barricades when it was a matter of defeating California congressional candidate Elizabeth Heng, first-generation child of refugees, Asian, female, former Stanford student body president, and Yale MBA in her singular bid to unseat a seven-term white male Democratic incumbent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/11\/11\/progressive-politics-are-not-really-progressive\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Some progressives lamented the\u00a0apparent\u00a0defeat of radical progressive African-American candidates such as gubernatorial nominees Stacey Abrams of Georgia and Florida\u2019s Andrew Gillum by blaming allegedly treasonous white women. Apparently white women did not vote sufficiently\u00a0en bloc\u00a0in accordance with approved notions of identity politics tribalism. According to this progressive orthodoxy, being [&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-2ZD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10514,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-double-standard-in-the-progressive-war-against-the-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":11509,"position":0},"title":"The Double Standard in the Progressive War against the Dead","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review \u00a0 Will Progressives erase the history of their racist heroes, or only their racist enemies? \u00a0 Much of the country has demanded the elimination of references to, and images of, people of the past \u2014 from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. 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