{"id":11654,"date":"2019-02-11T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T05:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11654"},"modified":"2019-02-11T21:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T05:06:46","slug":"progressives-bearing-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-bearing-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressives Bearing Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump in 2016 did not only run against the planted rumors of the fake Steele dossier, 90 percent negative media coverage, his own boisterous past, and the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape. He also was campaigning against Hillary Clinton\u2014and the nation\u2019s quarter-century weariness with the Clinton scandals, crimes, money-grubbing, and hypocrisies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a quarter of the country, independents especially, a vote for Trump was not a referendum on a Democrat or Republican, or even love or hate for Donald Trump, but rather reflected a \u201cNever Hillary\u201d desire to be done with the very name Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, too, in 2020 Trump will not be running only on his own record, or even his person but also against a living and breathing alternative candidate, one that both offers a precise antithetical agenda and displays a concrete personage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering all of that, during the last week, Trump has been given great gifts in a way no one might have imaged just a month ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/02\/10\/progressives-bearing-gifts\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump in 2016 did not only run against the planted rumors of the fake Steele dossier, 90 percent negative media coverage, his own boisterous past, and the \u201cAccess Hollywood\u201d tape. He also was campaigning against Hillary Clinton\u2014and the nation\u2019s quarter-century weariness with the Clinton scandals, crimes, money-grubbing, and [&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":[1161,1150,1],"tags":[1012,1053],"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":11139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-at-the-crossroads\/","url_meta":{"origin":11654,"position":0},"title":"Mueller at the Crossroads","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. 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