{"id":12094,"date":"2019-12-13T19:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2019-12-13T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:48:16","slug":"democrats-cannibalistic-ideology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/democrats-cannibalistic-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 Cannibalistic Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once liberalism and progressivism give way to Jacobinism \u2014 and they often do, as we have seen in revolutionary France, China, and Russia \u2014 no leftist is safe from the downward spiral to ideological cannibalism. Yesterday\u2019s true believer is today\u2019s counterrevolutionary and tomorrow\u2019s enemy of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We saw something like that during both the Trump impeachment frenzy and the current trajectory of the Democratic debates and looming primaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fury over Trump\u2019s election led to a graduated and escalating series of efforts to remove him by suing three states for supposedly fraudulent voting machines. Then articles of impeachment were introduced. Suits followed citing the Constitution\u2019s emoluments clause. The Logan Act was raised, as was the 25th Amendment. At each juncture, the zeal to remove the president accelerated in direct proportion to the failure of the previous effort. A lack of success was always explained as a result of insufficient revolutionary zeal, not an absence of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The escalation culminated in the appointment of Robert Mueller and his \u201cdream team\u201d of partisan anti-Trump attorneys. After their failure to find actionable obstruction and any evidence of collusion, Mueller confirmed in congressional testimony that he was largely a tired administrative-state figurehead, a shill for the anti-Trump zealotry of progressive prosecutor Andrew Weissmann.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/12\/democrats-cannibalistic-ideology\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Once liberalism and progressivism give way to Jacobinism \u2014 and they often do, as we have seen in revolutionary France, China, and Russia \u2014 no leftist is safe from the downward spiral to ideological cannibalism. Yesterday\u2019s true believer is today\u2019s counterrevolutionary and tomorrow\u2019s enemy of the people. We saw [&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-394","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12796,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-impeachment-incitement\/","url_meta":{"origin":12094,"position":0},"title":"An Impeachment Incitement","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 21, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump was impeached again on Wednesday, a week before leaving office in one of the great travesties of modern politics. 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