{"id":11628,"date":"2019-01-29T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11628"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:53:33","slug":"the-progressive-race-to-the-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-race-to-the-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Race to the Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old Democratic party championed the working classes, wanted secure borders to protect middle-class union wage earners, and focused generous federal entitlement help on the&nbsp;<em>citizen<\/em>&nbsp;poor. Civil rights were defined as equality of opportunity for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That party is long dead. An updated Hubert Humphrey or even Bill Clinton would not recognize any of the present \u201cDemocrats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even the old wing of elite liberals is mostly long gone, with its talk of legal immigration only, opposition to censorship, pro-Israel foreign policy, let-it-hang-out Sixties indulgence, and free speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was superseded by grim progressives who are not so much interested in a square, new, or fair deal for the middle classes, as an entirely different deal that redefines everything from the Bill of Rights and the very way we elect presidents and senators to an embrace of identity politics as its first principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/01\/progressive-politics-abolish-ice-tax-increases-free-college\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The old Democratic party championed the working classes, wanted secure borders to protect middle-class union wage earners, and focused generous federal entitlement help on the&nbsp;citizen&nbsp;poor. Civil rights were defined as equality of opportunity for all. That party is long dead. An updated Hubert Humphrey or even Bill Clinton would [&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-31y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10358,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10358-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":11628,"position":0},"title":"From An Angry Reader: In\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: In your recent article you are off base, friend. 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