{"id":11902,"date":"2019-07-15T18:41:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11902"},"modified":"2019-07-15T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:41:46","slug":"of-progressive-carnivores-and-cannibals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/of-progressive-carnivores-and-cannibals\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Progressive Carnivores and Cannibals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The parameters of marriage, in Obama\u2019s words \u201cbetween a man and woman,\u201d has now transmogrified beyond gay civil unions to legal gay marriage to transgendered fixations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obama once protested that he was no king who could open the border and grant amnesties by fiat. Yet his view of immigration has metamorphosed well beyond DACA and Dreamers into Democratic candidates going into Mexico to escort aliens unlawfully into our country, and 500 sanctuary jurisdictions in which federal immigration law is all but null and void. An American citizen convicted of using a fake Social Security Number and phony ID is a felon who is all but unemployable; an illegal alien who commits the same crimes learns quickly that these are not deportable offenses and mostly never prosecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a nanosecond, Betsy Ross\u2019s iconic colonial flag, which once emblazoned the backdrop of the 2012 Obama inauguration ceremony, have become racist icons\u2014or so Nike pitchman Colin Kaepernick has decreed, ordering his corporate bosses to remove them from commemorative sneakers.<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/14\/of-progressive-carnivores-and-cannibals\/link\">1.0000:00<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obamacare has abruptly morphed into \u201cMedicare for All\u201d\u2014including illegal aliens who are to be eligible the moment they cross the border, despite never having paid a dime into the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/14\/of-progressive-carnivores-and-cannibals\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries. The parameters of marriage, in Obama\u2019s words \u201cbetween a man and woman,\u201d has now transmogrified beyond gay civil unions to legal gay marriage to [&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-35Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11891,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/democratic-candidates-arent-on-a-winning-track\/","url_meta":{"origin":11902,"position":0},"title":"Democratic Candidates Aren\u2019t on a Winning Track","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Presidential candidates from both parties usually sound hard-core in the primaries to appeal to their progressive or conservative bases. 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