{"id":12035,"date":"2019-10-29T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12035"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:28:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:28:19","slug":"our-bankrupt-nomenklatura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-bankrupt-nomenklatura\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Bankrupt Nomenklatura"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left accusing him of being crazy. But he already took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. It was a simple cognitive exam and he aced it, as would most people. The Left, remember, had called in a Yale psychiatrist to testify that Trump was demented, during the lulls between the first impeachment, the serial \u201cRussian collusion\u201d hoaxes, the emoluments clause psychodrama and Robert Mueller\u2019s \u201cwalls-are-closing-in,\u201d \u201cturning-point,\u201d and \u201cbombshell\u201d investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the wrong public figures took the test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At times, former Vice President Joe Biden is unaware of which town, indeed which state, he is in. He slurs his words often. Biden strings together unconnected thoughts that result in utter incoherence\u2014not alleviated by his near shouting emphatics or fits of pique at reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes, Biden forgets names, and referents, and appears befuddled generally. His biography is mythical. He cannot address Ukraine and the role of his son, Hunter Biden, because, after all, what would a truthful person say? That the vice president of the United States allowed his wastrel son to become a multimillionaire by leveraging his father\u2019s office with foreign corrupt governments? And was Biden\u2019s moral lapse atypical, or rather reflective of prior ethical laxities that destroyed his two earlier presidential bids when he variously lied about his bio, plagiarized, and used a variety of racially insensitive remarks of the sort that would have characterized most others as racists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/10\/27\/our-bankrupt-nomenklatura\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump is now in the midst of another coup frenzy that has the Left accusing him of being crazy. But he already took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test. It was a simple cognitive exam and he aced it, as would most people. The Left, remember, had called in [&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-387","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12453,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-the-bidexit\/","url_meta":{"origin":12035,"position":0},"title":"When the Bidexit?","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review We have reached a strange impasse in the campaign in which weakness is seen as strength. 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