{"id":11800,"date":"2019-04-30T00:22:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T07:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11800"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:05:39","slug":"the-adolescent-progressive-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-adolescent-progressive-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adolescent Progressive Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 a demigod. The next moment, he\u2019s a devil. It depends solely on his perceived sense of utility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert Mueller, Saint to Sinner<br><\/strong>When Robert Mueller was appointed in May 2017 as special counsel to investigate alleged Trump campaign \u201ccollusion\u201d with Russia following the firing of FBI Director James Comey, he was practically canonized as a secular saint. The media was giddy over his \u201call stars\u201d and \u201cdream team\u201d of almost all liberal lawyers who shortly would prove the supposedly obvious: sure winner Hillary Clinton lost only because the vile Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to sabotage her campaign by leaking John Podesta\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Mueller investigation lumbered along over the last 22 months, the media periodically announced that their newfound hero had inside information, privileged but unnamed sources, and high-ranking anonymous officials who confirmed \u201cthe noose was tightening,\u201d the \u201cwalls were closing in,\u201d and \u201ca bombshell\u201d was about to go off. It was as if pre-teenagers had group-talked themselves into seeing witches and goblins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mueller was just about to ensure Trump\u2019s impeachment, indictment, or voluntary exile. More direct leaks apprised us that Mueller supposedly was sealing Trump\u2019s fate by flipping the alleged sell-out Michael Flynn. Or was it the dastardly Carter Page? Or perhaps the supposed wannabe George Papadopoulos was Trump\u2019s true nemesis. Or again, maybe the deified Mueller had so leveraged Stormy Daniels, or Michael Cohen, or Roger Stone, or Jerome Corsi that Trump would all but confess and slink off into infamous oblivion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amgreatness.com\/2019\/04\/28\/the-adolescent-progressive-mind\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 a demigod. The next moment, [&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":[1218,1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11763,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/with-mueller-hopes-gone-so-goes-progressive-unity\/","url_meta":{"origin":11800,"position":0},"title":"With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Democratic Party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos. 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