{"id":11939,"date":"2019-08-10T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:09:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T07:09:04","slug":"will-2020-be-a-repeat-of-2004-for-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/will-2020-be-a-repeat-of-2004-for-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Will 2020 Be a Repeat of 2004 for Democrats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four years earlier, in the 2000 election, Bush had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. Democrats were still furious that Bush supposedly had been \u201cselected\u201d by the Supreme Court over the contested vote tally in Florida rather than \u201celected\u201d by the majority of voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By late 2003, Bush\u2019s popularity had dipped because of the unpopular Iraq War, which a majority in both houses of Congress approved but had since disowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bush was attacked nonstop as a Nazi, fascist, and war criminal. \u201cBush lied, people died\u201d was the new left-wing mantra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk of Bush\u2019s impeachment was in the air. Democrats remembered that his father, George H. W. Bush, had lost his reelection bid in 1992. They hoped the same fate awaited his son.
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Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in the 2000 election, Bush had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. Democrats were still furious that Bush supposedly had been \u201cselected\u201d by the Supreme Court over the contested vote […]<\/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-36z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4589,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-perfect-storm-of-hating-bush-part-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":11939,"position":0},"title":"The Perfect Storm of Hating Bush: Part II","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 30, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson This is the second of four parts written for\u00a0Private Papers. 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