{"id":11994,"date":"2019-09-20T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2019-09-19T17:21:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T00:21:38","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-trump-wages-war-on-progressive-culture-dems-respond-with-trump-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-trump-wages-war-on-progressive-culture-dems-respond-with-trump-derangement-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture \u2013 Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President&nbsp;Trump is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">waging<\/a>&nbsp;a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a &#8220;Kulturkampf.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. For most of his time in office, Trump, his family, his friends and his businesses have been investigated, probed, dissected and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/2020-presidential-election\">constantly<\/a>&nbsp;attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016 and early 2017, President Barack Obama&#8217;s appointees in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/tech\/topics\/fbi\">FBI<\/a>, CIA and Department of Justice tried to subvert the Trump campaign, interfere with his transition and, ultimately, abort his presidency. Now, congressional Democrats promise impeachment before the 2020 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The usual reason for such hatred is said to be Trump\u2019s unorthodox and combative take-no-prisoners style. Critics detest his crude and unfettered assertions, his lack of prior military or political experience, his attacks on the so-called bipartisan administrative state, and his intent to roll back the entire Obama-era effort of \u201cfundamentally transforming\u201d the country leftward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/victor-davis-hanson-trumps-culture-war\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News President&nbsp;Trump is&nbsp;waging&nbsp;a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a &#8220;Kulturkampf.&#8221; As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump. 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