{"id":12053,"date":"2019-11-12T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12053"},"modified":"2019-11-11T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:22:47","slug":"the-looming-1984-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-looming-1984-election\/","title":{"rendered":"The Looming \u20181984\u2019 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump\u2019s record and his Democratic opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The choice in reductionist terms will be one between a growing, statist Panopticon, fueled by social media, a media-progressive nexus, and an electronic posse. Online trolls and government bureaucrats seek to know everything about us, in Big Brother fashion to monitor our very thoughts to ferret out incorrect ideas, and then to regiment and indoctrinate us to ensure elite visions of mandated equality and correct behavior\u2014or else!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, the personality quirks of a Trump or an Elizabeth Warren or a Bernie Sanders will become mostly irrelevant given the existential choice between two quite antithetical ideas of future America. In 2020 we will witness the penultimate manifestation of what radical progressivism has in store for us all\u2014and the furious, often desperate, and unfettered pushback against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Targeting Traditional America<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We are also well beyond even the stark choices of 1972 and 1984 that remained within the parameters of the two parties. In contrast, the Democratic Party as we have known it, is extinct for now. It has been replaced since 2016 by a radical progressive revolutionary movement that serves as a touchstone for a variety of auxiliary extremist causes, agendas, and cliques\u2014almost all of them radically leftwing and nihilistic, and largely without majority popular support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/11\/10\/the-looming-1984-election\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump\u2019s record and his Democratic opposition. The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice [&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-38p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12695,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-election-a-choice-between-rule-changing-and-respect-for-constitutional-norms\/","url_meta":{"origin":12053,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Election a choice between rule-changing and respect for constitutional norms","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Bozeman Daily Chronicle In traditional presidential campaigns, the two major parties offer contrasting ideas and policies. 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