{"id":11768,"date":"2019-04-08T12:20:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11768"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:06:55","slug":"all-the-progressive-plotters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/all-the-progressive-plotters\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Progressive Plotters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein\u2014cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders\u2014sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When that did not work, B-list Hollywood celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors in Trump-won states into&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>voting for the president-elect during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016. Their idea was that select morally superior electors should reject their constitutional directives and throw the election into the House of Representatives where even more morally superior NeverTrump Republicans might join with even much more morally superior Democrats to find the perfect morally superior NeverTrump alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When that did not work, more than 60 Democratic House members voted to bring up Trump\u2019s impeachment for vote. Trump had only been in office a few weeks. Then San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer toured the country and lavished millions on advertisements demanding Trump\u2019s removal by impeachment\u2014and was sorely disappointed when he discovered that billion-dollar-fueled virtue-signaling proved utterly bankrupt virtue-signaling.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/04\/07\/all-the-progressive-plotters\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein\u2014cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders\u2014sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop [&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":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-33O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11288,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/just-how-far-will-the-left-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":11768,"position":0},"title":"Just How Far Will the Left Go?","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There was no honeymoon for the unlikely winner of the 2016 election. 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