{"id":11982,"date":"2019-09-12T10:12:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2019-09-11T13:13:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T20:13:57","slug":"biden-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-or-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden or Bust?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/  American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pundits and politicos play the current parlor game of counting Joe Biden\u2019s daily bloopers, signs of debility, or embarrassments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike former \u201cApprentice\u201d host Donald Trump\u2019s exaggerations and narcissisms, Biden\u2019s fantasies are not baked into an outsider candidacy that by intent offers as a radical change of policy, a tough presidential tone, and unconventional political tactics. Trump is a renegade. Biden remains what he always was\u2014a deep state fixture. And his brand is mainstream Democrat left-liberal orthodoxy, which supposedly does not include weird and wild La La Land pronouncements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, Trump is hated by a media that is 90 percent negative in its coverage of his every word, deed, and sneeze. In contrast, the media is in the Biden tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the reaction to the respective boilerplate gaffes and untruths of each is quite different: when Trump is caught mythologizing, his supporters blame the \u201cfake news\u201d media for taking things out of context\u2014confusing his jest with seriousness, or conflating normal exaggeration and bombast with mortal-sin lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/09\/08\/biden-or-bust\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Pundits and politicos play the current parlor game of counting Joe Biden\u2019s daily bloopers, signs of debility, or embarrassments. Unlike former \u201cApprentice\u201d host Donald Trump\u2019s exaggerations and narcissisms, Biden\u2019s fantasies are not baked into an outsider candidacy that by intent offers as a radical change of policy, a tough [&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-37g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13864,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/eeyore-corner-trumpistics\/","url_meta":{"origin":11982,"position":0},"title":"Eeyore\u2019 Corner: Trumpistics","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 6, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Image by smshoot @ Getty Images Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ VDH's Blade of Perseus Part One: Trump, RIP? 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