{"id":11763,"date":"2019-04-04T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11763"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:07:05","slug":"with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the common hatred of President Donald Trump has united otherwise quite disparate Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These diverse progressive politicians all shared faith in special counsel Robert Mueller and his \u201cdream team.\u201d They believed over the last two years that the Mueller investigation was slowly grinding down Trump. T-shirts were sold with the slogan \u201cGod Protect Robert Mueller.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unifying progressive creed assumed that the Mueller\u2019s team would eventually find Trump unequivocally guilty of \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia. That buzzword was the noncriminal euphemism for felonious conspiracy to rig an election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hunt for collusion would end with the holy grail of Trump\u2019s impeachment and removal from office. In 2020 there would be an almost automatic progressive takeover of government.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/04\/03\/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos. But the common hatred of President Donald Trump has united otherwise quite disparate Democratic leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.); former Vice President Joe Biden; Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif), Cory [&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":[1218,1167,1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11800,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-adolescent-progressive-mind\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":0},"title":"The Adolescent Progressive Mind","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One of the strangest things about the series of psychodramas that surround the ongoing effort to remove President Trump before the 2020 election is progressive schizophrenia. In teenage fashion, one moment a player in the Trump removal intrigue is deemed by the media-progressive nexus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2020 Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2020 Election","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/2020-election\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12106,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":1},"title":"When Hate Becomes an Agenda","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness When a party, an ideological movement, and an entire political agenda are based on hatred, people and policies become warped. The left-wing loathing of Trump has now tainted almost every Democrat\u2019s agenda and unhinged most of the party\u2019s major players. Impeachment has turned into\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12094,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/democrats-cannibalistic-ideology\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":2},"title":"Democrats\u2019 Cannibalistic Ideology","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Once liberalism and progressivism give way to Jacobinism \u2014 and they often do, as we have seen in revolutionary France, China, and Russia \u2014 no leftist is safe from the downward spiral to ideological cannibalism. Yesterday\u2019s true believer is today\u2019s counterrevolutionary and tomorrow\u2019s enemy\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11743,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-report-confirms-the-steele-dossier-belongs-in-the-dustbin-of-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":3},"title":"Mueller report confirms the Steele dossier belongs in the dustbin of history","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory in The Hill The Trump dossier \u2014 compiled by Christopher Steele, commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee \u2014 has tied up U.S. politics for more than two years with its\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11373,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-truth-will-set-us-all-free\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":4},"title":"The Truth Will Set Us All Free","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation was star-crossed from the start. His friend and successor as FBI director, James Comey, by his own admission prompted the investigation \u2014 with the deliberate leaking of classified memos about his conversations with President Donald Trump to the press.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11050,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/swamp-things-in-the-russia-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11763,"position":5},"title":"Swamp Things in the Russia Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \"The Swamp\u201d usually refers to the vast federal bureaucratic machinery of mostly unelected top officials who exercise influence and power without worry about the appearance of conflicts of interest. 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