{"id":11521,"date":"2018-11-15T22:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11521"},"modified":"2018-11-15T22:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T06:01:42","slug":"maybe-we-could-use-a-civic-hippocratic-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/maybe-we-could-use-a-civic-hippocratic-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe We Could Use a Civic Hippocratic Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p>A mob of protesters associated with the radical left-wing group Antifa swarmed the private residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the night of Nov. 7. They yelled, \u201cTucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!\u201d The mob\u2019s apparent aim was to catch Carlson\u2019s family inside and so terrify them that he might temper his conservative views. Only Carlson\u2019s wife was home at the time. She locked herself in a pantry and called police.<\/p>\n<p>During the Supreme Court nomination hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, demonstrators disrupted the proceedings and stalked senators. Later, a mob broke through police barricades to pound on the doors of the Supreme Court while Kavanaugh was preparing to be sworn in. Their agenda apparently was to create such confusion and disorder that the nomination might be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood celebrities habitually boast of wanting to shoot, blow up or decapitate President Donald Trump. Apparently their furor is meant to lower the bar of violence so that Trump fears for his personal safety and therefore might silence or change his views.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/11\/15\/maybe-we-could-use-a-civic-hippocratic-oath\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness A mob of protesters associated with the radical left-wing group Antifa swarmed the private residence of Fox News host Tucker Carlson on the night of Nov. 7. They yelled, \u201cTucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!\u201d The mob\u2019s apparent aim was to catch Carlson\u2019s [&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":[1199,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2ZP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11433,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/fallout-from-the-kavanaugh-hearings-a-permanent-cloud\/","url_meta":{"origin":11521,"position":0},"title":"Fallout from the Kavanaugh Hearings: A Permanent Cloud?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Conventional wisdom suggests that, if confirmed, Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh forever will be \u201csmeared\u201d and stained by past frenzied unfounded allegations of sexual assault. 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