{"id":12080,"date":"2019-12-02T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12080"},"modified":"2019-12-02T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:34:35","slug":"quo-vadis-democrati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/quo-vadis-democrati\/","title":{"rendered":"Quo Vadis, Democrati?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where are the Democrats going next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to this past week, for days Adam Schiff had concocted a pretty effective fix. He conducted secret impeachment inquiries in the House basement. Schiff kept quiet about his rigged rules. He orchestrated selective media leaks from the opening statements of favorable witnesses and then more or less threatened with ethical violations any Republican member who copied his tactics and leaked their own often effective cross-examinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result was that the public heard only from Schiff about Schiff\u2019s damning slam-dunk hearings. A drip-by-drip melting of both Trump\u2019s polls and resistance to impeachment followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schiff emerged for brief soundbites, bit his lip, and for a minute or two regretted the tragedy of having to hear damaging testimony about his own president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then I suppose Schiff\u2019s Hubris finally lured in Nemesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Schiff\u2019s overweening ambition and ego drove him into a full-fledged, prime-daytime soap opera. Previously washed and rinsed witnesses returned for televised cross-examinations with Schiff in the star inquisitor role. He apparently thought he could outperform his own Republican colleagues on camera \u2014 people he had blatantly misrepresented for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/11\/trump-impeachment-inquiry-where-are-democrats-going\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Where are the Democrats going next? Prior to this past week, for days Adam Schiff had concocted a pretty effective fix. He conducted secret impeachment inquiries in the House basement. Schiff kept quiet about his rigged rules. He orchestrated selective media leaks from the opening statements of favorable witnesses [&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-38Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12173,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/up-schiffs-creek\/","url_meta":{"origin":12080,"position":0},"title":"Up Schiff&#8217;s Creek","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Adam Schiff is starting to wear on his own. 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