{"id":11942,"date":"2019-08-12T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11942"},"modified":"2019-08-10T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T07:11:03","slug":"why-target-tucker-carlson-its-part-of-the-lefts-war-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-target-tucker-carlson-its-part-of-the-lefts-war-on-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Why target Tucker Carlson? It’s part of the left’s war on the right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Hill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have rightly shocked the nation. In our understandable collective furor over the senseless loss of life, all the old political divides are being revisited, now in a climate of often frightening blame, anger and distrust \u2014 from gun control to the role of extremist ideologies to mental health to responsibilities of political leaders not to inflame tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such reexamination is a fine and good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what is not is a different sort of outrage, one that leverages the deaths of innocents to destroy the reputations and careers of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was to be expected that the progressive media and political activists would go after President Trump<\/a> and his effort to secure the border by blaming him directly for the deaths in El Paso \u2014 while not extending such flawed logic to other mass shooters in Dayton and, previously, in Washington, D.C. Both those shooters explicitly claimed fervent support for left-wing causes<\/a> and particular progressive candidates, such as Sens. Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren<\/a> (D-Mass.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Hill The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have rightly shocked the nation. In our understandable collective furor over the senseless loss of life, all the old political divides are being revisited, now in a climate of often frightening blame, anger and distrust \u2014 from gun control […]<\/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-36C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13045,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-john-batchelor-show-beware-the-political-speakers-of-follow-the-science\/","url_meta":{"origin":11942,"position":0},"title":"The John Batchelor Show: Beware the political speakers of “follow the science.”","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-john-batchelor-show-beware-the-political-speakers-of-follow-the-science\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1011,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/no-labels-no-democracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":11942,"position":1},"title":"“No Labels,” No Democracy","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Bruce S. 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