{"id":11908,"date":"2019-07-23T09:03:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2019-07-23T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T16:03:55","slug":"cant-we-all-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t We All Just Get Along?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get along? Apparently no\u2014at least until after 2020. Two examples summarize why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t need any more brown faces that don\u2019t want to be a brown voice,\u201d said U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one-quarter of \u201cthe squad\u201d sowing havoc among Democrats in the House. \u201c We don\u2019t need black faces that don\u2019t want to be a black voice. We don\u2019t need Muslims that don\u2019t want to be a Muslim voice. We don\u2019t need queers that don\u2019t want to be a queer voice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the Republican Party, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said the other day: \u201cIt must be peacefully, nonviolently, politically destroyed with love, compassion and determination, but utterly confronted and destroyed. That is the only way to break the coalition apart\u2026 Not by prying off this or that interest. They are in too deep. They have shamed themselves too much. The heart of the thing must be ripped out. The darkness must be banished.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, the new progressive message is that we all must vote monolithically and predicated on our superficial appearance, religion, or sexual orientation. And the Trump base must be destroyed, though annihilated with \u201clove\u201d and \u201ccompassion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/22\/cant-we-all-just-get-along\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Get along? Apparently no\u2014at least until after 2020. Two examples summarize why. \u201cWe don\u2019t need any more brown faces that don\u2019t want to be a brown voice,\u201d said U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one-quarter of \u201cthe squad\u201d sowing havoc among Democrats in the House. \u201c We don\u2019t need black [&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-364","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13289,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scholars-and-sense-podcast-with-vdh-and-his-cohosts-conrad-black-and-bill-bennett\/","url_meta":{"origin":11908,"position":0},"title":"Scholars and Sense Podcast with VDH and his cohosts Conrad Black and Bill Bennett","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/feeds.buzzsprout.com\/1770105.rss In the first episode of\u00a0 Scholars & Sense, Bill Bennett, Conrad Black & Victor Davis Hanson talk about the American economy, inequality in the education system and the on-going left leaning bias in the media. 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