{"id":12106,"date":"2019-12-19T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12106"},"modified":"2019-12-18T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T05:20:09","slug":"when-hate-becomes-an-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"When Hate Becomes an Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a party, an ideological movement, and an entire political agenda are based on hatred, people and policies become warped. The left-wing loathing of Trump has now tainted almost every Democrat\u2019s agenda and unhinged most of the party\u2019s major players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impeachment has turned into a cruel caricature of a rare constitutional remedy for presidential criminality. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz\u2019s report proved a compendium of FBI lying, fraud, and vendetta. There is not a single prominent figure in Horowitz\u2019s lengthy report who has not left a written or video trail of anti-Trump bias (James Comey, Peter Strozk, the Ohrs, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith) or has had some sort of questionable financial relationship with the Clintons or their affiliates (Alexander Downer, Andrew McCabe).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the progressive presidential field is in a sort of collective meltdown, as candidates begin recalibrating and trading accusations as they fear their own early anti-Trump agendas have little public support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prior subtext to impeachment\u2014if not smeared or stopped, Trump will win in 2020\u2014was spoken only by hardcore leftists like U.S. Representatives Alexander Green (D-Texas) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). Now it is shamelessly voiced by leaders in the party such as Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), with the twist of fears that Trump will \u201crig the election\u201d (after Special Counsel Robert Mueller, of course, found that he had not done so in 2016, and Horowitz found that Trump\u2019s campaign aides were largely targeted by the FBI and CIA hierarchy) unless he is impeached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/12\/15\/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness When a party, an ideological movement, and an entire political agenda are based on hatred, people and policies become warped. The left-wing loathing of Trump has now tainted almost every Democrat\u2019s agenda and unhinged most of the party\u2019s major players. Impeachment has turned into a cruel caricature of a [&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-39g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11237,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scandals-sanitized-with-linguistic-trickery\/","url_meta":{"origin":12106,"position":0},"title":"Scandals Sanitized with Linguistic Trickery","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Obama becomes an unnamed \u2018government official,\u2019 \u2018investigation\u2019 becomes a \u2018matter,\u2019 and \u2018illegal\u2019 becomes \u2018improper.\u2019 There are lots of strange things throughout Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz\u2019s massive report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation. 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