{"id":12100,"date":"2019-12-15T19:48:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T03:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12100"},"modified":"2019-12-13T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:53:00","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-democrats-addicted-to-attacking-trump-even-if-impeachment-drive-hurts-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-democrats-addicted-to-attacking-trump-even-if-impeachment-drive-hurts-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats addicted to attacking Trump \u2013 Even if impeachment drive hurts them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/elections\">effort<\/a>&nbsp;to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do we remember the effort to subvert the Electoral College to prevent Trump from assuming&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">office<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/james-jay-carafano-how-is-trump-impeachment-affecting-america-around-world\"><strong>JAMES CARAFANO: HOW IS TRUMP IMPEACHMENT AFFECTING AMERICA AROUND WORLD?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first impeachment try during his initial week in office?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attempts to remove Trump using the ossified Logan Act or the emoluments clause of the Constitution?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of declaring Trump unhinged, subject to removal by invoking the 25th Amendment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s 22-month, $35 million investigation, which failed to find Trump guilty of collusion with Russia in the 2016 election and failed to find actionable obstruction of justice pertaining to the non-crime of collusion?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/victor-davis-hanson-is-trump-the-only-adult-in-the-room\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Donald Trump&nbsp;certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year&nbsp;effort&nbsp;to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. Do we remember the effort to subvert [&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-39a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12095,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-spygate-impeachment-the-assault-on-trump-for-undoing-the-progressive-agenda\/","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Spygate, Impeachment &#038; the Assault on Trump For Undoing the Progressive Agenda","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Epoch Times https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4Gkm77usT0&feature=youtu.be","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/-4Gkm77usT0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12796,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/an-impeachment-incitement\/","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":1},"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. Here are reasons why the exercise proved a farce. One, impeachment was never intended by the founders to become a serial effort to\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11994,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-trump-wages-war-on-progressive-culture-dems-respond-with-trump-derangement-syndrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":2},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture \u2013 Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News President\u00a0Trump is\u00a0waging\u00a0a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a \"Kulturkampf.\" As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12055,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-impeachment-is-illegitimate\/","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":3},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There are at least ten reasons why the Democratic impeachment \u201cinquiry\u201d is a euphemism for an ongoing coup attempt. 1) Impeachment 24\/7.\u00a0The impeachment \u201cinquiry,\u201d supposedly prompted by the president\u2019s Ukrainian call, is simply the most recent in a long series of \u201ccoups\u201d that sought\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12078,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-hatred-that-fuels-impeachment\/","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":4},"title":"The Hatred that Fuels Impeachment","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Neither the NeverTrump Right nor the Progressive Left has yet offered a coherent defense of their\u00a0de facto, three-year-long singular effort to delegitimize and ultimately remove Trump from office before the 2020 election. We are now in the midst of a systematic effort to impeach\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12074,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/20-impeachment-what-ifs\/","url_meta":{"origin":12100,"position":5},"title":"20 Impeachment What-Ifs","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The Democrats might have had a more persuasive case for impeachment if only\u2026 1) Donald Trump had cut off all military assistance to Ukraine. 2) Donald Trump got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired by leveraging U.S. aid. 3) Barack Obama earlier had not vetoed lethal\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12100\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}