{"id":11786,"date":"2019-04-16T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11786"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:06:24","slug":"the-progressive-revolution-from-democratic-to-liberal-to-progressive-to-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-revolution-from-democratic-to-liberal-to-progressive-to-socialist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Revolution: From Democratic to Liberal to Progressive to Socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2008 despite, not because of, his most partisan voting record in the Senate. They were once willing to look past his earlier dubious associations with abject anti-Semites such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, former terrorists like Bill Ayers, and unhinged characters such as Father Pfleger. They also averted their eyes from Obama\u2019s often quite offensive commentary, in his autobiography and during the 2008 campaign (e.g., \u201ctypical white person\u201d and \u201cthey cling to\u2026\u201d speech).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, voters were tired of the Iraq War (which was over for all practical purposes by the time of the November 2008 election).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were, of course, terrified by the September 2008 financial meltdown (which had been mostly stabilized four months later by the time of the inauguration) and irate at the kid-gloves treatment accorded often conniving banks and investors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were convinced that Obama might be healing and transformative as the first African-American president, supposedly only slightly to the left of a far steadier and more qualified Condoleezza Rice or Colin Powell. And half the Democrats were already becoming sick of Hillary Clinton once they became reacquainted with her on the 2008 primary-campaign trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As is typical of American politics, voters in 2008 also wanted to change the party in power after it had been in the lead for eight years, and the lame-duck president fell out of favor. Voters certainly were underwhelmed by an uninspiring, herky-jerky, mostly incompetent John McCain campaign, notable for his \u201cthat\u2019s not who we are\u201d comments and his willingness to \u201close nobly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such was the na\u00efve dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/04\/progressive-revolution-ends-in-socialism\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Americans voted for Barack Obama in 2008 despite, not because of, his most partisan voting record in the Senate. They were once willing to look past his earlier dubious associations with abject anti-Semites such as the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, former terrorists like Bill Ayers, and unhinged characters such as [&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":[1167,1156,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-346","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11453,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-origins-of-progressive-agony\/","url_meta":{"origin":11786,"position":0},"title":"The Origins of Progressive Agony","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review What has transformed the Democratic party into an anguished progressive movement that incorporates the tactics of the street, embraces maenadism, reverts to Sixties carnival barking, and is radicalized by a new young socialist movement? 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