{"id":11525,"date":"2018-11-19T18:58:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2018-11-19T18:58:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:58:36","slug":"the-progressive-synopticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-synopticon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Synopticon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

I<\/span>n the post-election aftermath, Republicans are wondering about how they can capture that missing 2-5 percent of the electorate that lost them the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Could they pry away 40 percent of the institutionalized Democratic Latino vote on delivery of a full-employment economy of rising wages? Can they win over 20 percent of the African-American electorate on the basis of more jobs and less competition from illegal immigrants?<\/p>\n

Can Trump tone down his ad hominem <\/i>invective and tweeting to reassure an additional 10 percent of independent and middle-class suburban women that his national security agenda, free-market prosperity, traditionalism, law-and-order, and national sovereignty policies ensure greater tranquility, safety, and opportunity\u2014even if they are not packaged in the manner of his more mellifluous and vacuous \u201cpresidential\u201d predecessor?<\/p>\n

No Escaping the Culture Wars
\n<\/b>Republicans, in deer-in-the-headlights-style, appear shocked that they are increasingly prone to winning the vote on Election Day only to lose it in the ensuing weeks when absentee ballots and what-not filter in with astounding Democratic majorities. Someone is spending a lot of money to get the absentee voting ballot out, correctly marked, and returned. And whatever that \u201clot\u201d is, it is killing Republican candidates.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness In the post-election aftermath, Republicans are wondering about how they can capture that missing 2-5 percent of the electorate that lost them the House of Representatives. Could they pry away 40 percent of the institutionalized Democratic Latino vote on delivery of a full-employment economy of rising wages? 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