{"id":11897,"date":"2019-07-12T09:43:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:44:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:44:03","slug":"democratic-candidates-are-running-a-race-of-authenticity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/democratic-candidates-are-running-a-race-of-authenticity\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Candidates Are Running a Race of Authenticity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for years claimed Native American ancestry. An embattled Warren ironically took a DNA test that only proved her critics\u2019 contention that she was no more of Native American heritage than the vast majority of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another Democratic candidate, Robert Francis O\u2019Rourke, is a rich white male who grew up in affluence. O\u2019Rourke some time ago adopted the name \u201cBeto,\u201d an abbreviation for the Spanish \u201cRoberto.\u201d The Spanish-speaking, Irish-American O\u2019Rourke, with a wink and nod, has assumed a useful near-Latino identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/10\/democratic-candidates-are-running-a-race-of-inauthenticity\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness An epidemic of false identities, massaged resumes and warped ancestries has broken out among the current Democratic presidential primary candidates. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) for years claimed Native American ancestry. An embattled Warren ironically took a DNA test that only proved her critics\u2019 contention that she was no more [&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-35T","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11947,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-robert-orourke-became-beto\/","url_meta":{"origin":11897,"position":0},"title":"How Robert O\u2019Rourke Became \u2018Beto\u2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review A\u00a0\u00a0great deal of controversy has continued the past few days over Robert Francis O\u2019Rourke\u2019s longtime use of a nickname given to him at birth (albeit temporarily jettisoned while in prep school) \u2014 especially in the wake of his recent sensational and unfounded charges that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12452,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-will-win-if-he-responds-to-righteous-voter-rage\/","url_meta":{"origin":11897,"position":1},"title":"Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states. 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Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate\u00a0Sen. Elizabeth Warren\u00a0put it, \u201cI plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11395,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-circus-of-resistance\/","url_meta":{"origin":11897,"position":5},"title":"The Circus of Resistance","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The resistance to Donald Trump was warring on all fronts last week. Democratic senators vied with pop-up protestors in the U.S. Senate gallery to disrupt and, if possible, to derail the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 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