{"id":11955,"date":"2019-08-23T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11955"},"modified":"2019-08-22T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T22:16:30","slug":"progressive-democrats-renounce-their-former-selves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressive-democrats-renounce-their-former-selves\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Democrats Renounce Their Former Selves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

All politicians are \u201cflexible.\u201d If they are in politics long enough, many reinvent themselves ideologically several times over \u2014 given the perceived volatile mood of 51 percent of their constituency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But rarely have we seen an entire primary field of candidates scrambling to renounce all their past identities and agendas \u2014 and to do so unapologetically, abruptly, and vehemently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently, they believe, at least in the primary, that the electorate will either identify as nonwhite, or far left, or both \u2014 and thus resent deeply any who are not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To win the nomination, almost all the leading candidates on the Democratic debate stage now believe that they must renounce almost everything they once stood for \u2014 at least for a while. Given that most are white or affluent or children of privilege, or all three, sometimes the metamorphosis becomes low comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their rational seems to be that 1) no one will remember what they once promoted anyway, 2) everyone will give them a pass when, if nominated, they run in the general election on some of what they just renounced in the primaries, and 3) they really believe that mass immigration and declining demography has made America a nonwhite nation, that some sort of DNA identification badge will allow all of us to find and belong to the right racial caste, and that our superficial identities will govern everything we do, say, and believe (as happened in Rwanda or the former Yugoslavia).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review All politicians are \u201cflexible.\u201d If they are in politics long enough, many reinvent themselves ideologically several times over \u2014 given the perceived volatile mood of 51 percent of their constituency. But rarely have we seen an entire primary field of candidates scrambling to renounce all their past identities and […]<\/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-36P","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6059,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/islamic-forced-conversions-past-and-present\/","url_meta":{"origin":11955,"position":0},"title":"Islamic Forced Conversions – Past and Present","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim www.raymondibrahim.com The Blaze The lost history of Christians forced to convert to Islam\u2014or die\u2014is reemerging, figuratively and literally. 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