{"id":11721,"date":"2019-03-17T19:59:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2019-03-17T19:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:59:48","slug":"when-cabin-boys-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-cabin-boys-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"When Cabin Boys Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Julie Kelly \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson is about as accomplished and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/about-vdh\/\">credentialed<\/a>&nbsp;a commentator you can find. He\u2019s an author, a military historian, a senior fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, and a farmer in California. President George W. Bush awarded Hanson the National Humanities Award in 2007. By all accounts and appearances, he is a decent, humble man who spends a great deal of time analyzing our current political moment and discussing what it portends for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hanson also is a supporter of President Trump. This heresy has earned him scorn from quarters on the Left and the so-called Right. His new book,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Case-Trump-Victor-Davis-Hanson\/dp\/1541673549\"><em>The Case for Trump<\/em><\/a>, has generated a barrage of criticism from the cabal of NeverTrumpers. Embittered by their humiliating miscalculation of Trump\u2019s candidacy and shamelessly contorting their previous views to be able to contradict the president, these anti-Trump \u201cconservatives\u201d viciously attack anyone who dares to support the president. This includes Hanson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a particularly vile hit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuckshed.com\/\">piece<\/a>&nbsp;posted on&nbsp;<em>The Bulwark<\/em>, the new blog of&nbsp;<em>Weekly Standard<\/em>&nbsp;refugees who were left unemployed after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2018\/12\/17\/death-of-the-weekly-standard-signals-rebirth-of-the-right\/\">the publication was shuttered<\/a>&nbsp;in December, Gabe Schoenfeld accused Hanson of defending evil\u2014that evil being President Trump.&nbsp;<em>Bulwark<\/em>&nbsp;editor Charlie Sykes recently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/02\/a-bulwark-of-liberal-cliches\/\">threatened<\/a>&nbsp;to \u201craise the opportunity costs\u201d for pro-Trump commentators, Hanson specifically. To do so, Sykes enlisted the facile services of Schoenfeld, an advisor for the failed Mitt Romney presidential campaign, to pretend to write a book review that was little more than an&nbsp;<em>ad hominem<\/em>&nbsp;attack on Hanson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/03\/13\/when-cabin-boys-attack\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Kelly \/\/ American Greatness Victor Davis Hanson is about as accomplished and&nbsp;credentialed&nbsp;a commentator you can find. He\u2019s an author, a military historian, a senior fellow at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institution, and a farmer in California. President George W. Bush awarded Hanson the National Humanities Award in 2007. By all accounts and appearances, he is [&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":[1220,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-333","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11811,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/uncommon-knowledge-victor-davis-hanson-on-the-case-for-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":11721,"position":0},"title":"Uncommon Knowledge Victor Davis Hanson on \u201cThe Case for Trump\u201d","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"How did blue-collar voters connect with a millionaire from Queens in the 2016 election? 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