{"id":12016,"date":"2019-10-09T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2019-10-09T10:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T17:10:33","slug":"anti-trump-psychodrama-10-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/anti-trump-psychodrama-10-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Trump Psychodrama 10.0?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

What do the Kavanaugh hearings, Jussie Smollett, the Covington kids, the Mueller investigation, and now the Trump phone call all have in common?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staged melodrama, media collusion hysteria, progressive demands that justice be served immediately, promises of walls-are-closing-in blockbuster revelations from new witnesses, supposed surprise revelatory documents, fusions between Democratic politicians and Washington bureaucrats \u2014 and then bust, nada, and teeth-gnashing as the truth catches up to various rumor-mongers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disgraced purveyors of lies \u2014 a Christine Blasey Ford, Michael Avenatti, Nathan Phillips, Jussie Smollet, Adam Schiff \u2014 for a time go mute, content with progressives\u2019 praise that they lied for a moral cause and almost pulled it off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The particular narrative is not all that important, at least compared with a general overriding theme: We are in a virtual civil war, and the Left believes that it can win over the hearts and minds of 20 to 30 percent of the swing voters in the United States with therapeutic tales of racism, sexism, unearned white privilege, and right-wing greed and selfishness, and also by destroying the elected president. Particular events in the news are warped and twisted, to the degree that they can be, to serve that narrative \u2014 on the principle that the superior moral end of ensuring a radical equality of result more than justifies the often tawdry and dishonest means to achieve it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christine Blasey Ford\u2019s recovered-memory accusations that a teenaged Brett Kavanaugh, nearly 40 years ago, had assaulted her were not corroborated by any firsthand witnesses, and Ford provided no reliable information on the place or date of the alleged assault. The investigation did turn up plenty of contradictory evidence, including denials from her closest friends and from people she herself named as witnesses to the alleged attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review What do the Kavanaugh hearings, Jussie Smollett, the Covington kids, the Mueller investigation, and now the Trump phone call all have in common? Staged melodrama, media collusion hysteria, progressive demands that justice be served immediately, promises of walls-are-closing-in blockbuster revelations from new witnesses, supposed surprise revelatory documents, fusions between […]<\/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-37O","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11734,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-progressives-should-know-about-trump-voters\/","url_meta":{"origin":12016,"position":0},"title":"What Progressives Should Know About Trump Voters","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ CNN CNN)Progressives wonder how in the world could anyone still support President Donald Trump. 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