{"id":12029,"date":"2019-10-22T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12029"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:15:25","slug":"why-do-they-hate-him-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-do-they-hate-him-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do They Hate Him So?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden claims he wants to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) jokes that she would like to go into an elevator with him and see Trump never come out alive. Robert De Niro has exhausted the ways in which he dreams of punching Trump out and the intonations in which he yells to audiences, \u201cF\u2014k Trump!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The humanists and social justice warriors of Hollywood, from Madonna to Johnny Depp, cannot agree whether their elected president should be beheaded, blown up, stabbed, shot, or incinerated. All the Democratic would-be presidential nominees agree that Trump is the worst something-or-other in history\u2014from human being to mere president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former subordinates like Anthony Scaramucci, Omarosa, and Michael Cohen insist that he is a racist, a sexist, a crook, a bully, or mentally deranged\u2014and they all support their firsthand appraisals on the basis they eagerly worked for him and were unceremoniously fired by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The so-called deep state detests him. An&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html\">anonymous op-ed<\/a>&nbsp;writer in the September 5, 2018&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;bragged about the bureaucracy\u2019s successful efforts to ignore Trump\u2019s legal mandates\u2014a sort of more methodical version of the comical Rosenstein-McCabe attempt to stage a palace coup and remove Trump, or the Democrats efforts to invoke the 25th Amendment and declare Trump crazy, bolstered by an array of Ivy League psychiatrists who had neither met nor examined him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/10\/20\/why-do-they-hate-him-so\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Joe Biden claims he wants to take Trump behind the gym and beat him up. Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) jokes that she would like to go into an elevator with him and see Trump never come out alive. Robert De Niro has exhausted the ways in which he dreams [&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-381","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12693,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/interview-with-victor-davis-hanson-democrats-want-to-recalibrate-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":12029,"position":0},"title":"Interview with Victor Davis Hanson: \u201cDemocrats want to recalibrate America\u201d","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Four years ago, then-candidate Donald Trump promised an end to neo-con adventurism in the Middle East and to shift greater global responsibility to America\u2019s NATO allies. 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Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited\u2014regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. 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