{"id":11936,"date":"2019-08-07T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11936"},"modified":"2019-08-06T23:38:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:38:01","slug":"democrats-debate-cowardice-hypocrisy-and-nuttiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/democrats-debate-cowardice-hypocrisy-and-nuttiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Debate Cowardice, Hypocrisy, and Nuttiness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Half of the Democratic 20-person primary field in the debates appeared unhappy, shrill, and self-righteous, and determined that no candidate should out-left any other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, they certainly sound clueless about how they sound to those in western Pennsylvania or southern Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their timidity also only accentuated rampant hypocrisy. It manifested itself a number of ways, from fear of defending their own past records to cowardice in calling out the rank socialist absurdities of the demagogues on stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does any candidate believe in one\u2019s prior convictions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In debate one, Joe Biden could have barked back at the attack-dog Kamala Harris that federally mandated school busing was always a bad and unpopular idea. He could have asked her whether the young Harris was aware of the chaos of the 1970s that surrounded forced busing, the dislocations that caused more problems than any problem that busing solved. He might have mentioned that forced busing would find zero support today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/08\/democratic-party-debate-cowardice-hypocrisy-nuttiness\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Half of the Democratic 20-person primary field in the debates appeared unhappy, shrill, and self-righteous, and determined that no candidate should out-left any other. So far, they certainly sound clueless about how they sound to those in western Pennsylvania or southern Michigan. Their timidity also only accentuated rampant hypocrisy. 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