{"id":11883,"date":"2019-07-03T08:19:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11883"},"modified":"2019-07-03T08:20:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T15:20:05","slug":"the-anti-trump-circus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-anti-trump-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Trump Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Left should have learned something after the failed celebrity appeal to undermine the Electoral College, the initial articles of impeachment, the empty invocations of the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, and the 25th Amendment, the 22-month, $35 million Mueller investigation deflation, the periodical silly \u201cbombshell\u201d announcements of perennially wrong and comical Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the pathetic palace coup attempt of Andrew McCabe, the assassination chic from the likes of Madonna, Snoop Dogg, or Kathy Griffin, or the deification of the slimy prophet Michael Avenatti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not at all. An entire new cast of carnival characters has arrived on the scene to take up where the now imploded Left off. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) has replaced Schiff in the unhinged congressional investigative limelight. In his latest hearing, Nadler obtusely insisted on addressing former Trump White House aide Hope Hicks as \u201cMs. Lewandowski.\u201d Even Democrats were puzzled\u2014given that Nadler\u2019s supposed \u201cslip of the tongue\u201d was repeated three times until Hicks finally corrected him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in the age of gender transitioning and speech reduced to Twitter-like grunts, sane people still do not confuse the four-syllable name of the male Lewandowski as some sort of homophone for the one syllable name of the female Hicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/06\/30\/the-anti-trump-circus\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature. The Left should have learned something after the failed celebrity appeal to undermine the Electoral College, the initial articles of impeachment, the empty invocations of the Logan Act, the Emoluments Clause, [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-35F","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12106,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda\/","url_meta":{"origin":11883,"position":0},"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. 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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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;The Case for Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"The Case for Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-case-for-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10938,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/radioactive-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":11883,"position":5},"title":"Radioactive Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Defining Ideas Hillary Clinton seems to be experiencing a strange, slow motion meltdown following her 2016 loss to Donald Trump. 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