{"id":12130,"date":"2020-01-09T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12130"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:51:05","slug":"angry-reader-01-09-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-01-09-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Reader 01-09-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From\nAn Angry Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Subject: The Dangers\nof\u2026YOU<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Hanson,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It appears that they let\njust about anyone submit an opinion even a Stanford grad. I guess you didn\u2019t\nhave what it takes to get into Harvard. You are obviously a Republican and that\nis not a good thing right now. Republicans right now are deaf, blind and\nstupid! It is the ignorant and uneducated schmucks like you that have all the\nRepublican believing that party is more important than country. You may have a\ndegree but far from being educated. Educate yourself on the facts and stop\nspinning the truth to make yourself look relevant. Talk about misleading your\naudience. Like all Republicans, you are blind to what Trump has done to your\ncountry. I\u2019m not saying he hasn\u2019t done anything. I mean Mexico did pay for wall\nright? You are an embarrassment and a traitor. You love your bullshit party\nover your country! I say you are a fraud. Better start to learn Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You have a great future\nat Fox and Friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard Selcer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard Selcer & Associates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

302 Briston Private<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa, ON K1G 5R1<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa\/Montreal\/Toronto\/Vancouver\/Las\nVegas\/Chicago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dear Angry Reader Howard Selcer,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You hit almost all the Angry Reader buttons: personal\ninvective and ad hominem attacks (e.g., \u201ctraitor,\u201d \u201cignorant and uneducated\nschmucks like you,\u201d etc.), potty language (\u201cbullshit\u201d), personal arrogance (the\npretentious titles and affiliations that remind us that you and your\n\u201cassociates\u201d are pan-North-American and that a Harvard or Stanford pedigree\nequates with authority), the puerile grammatical incoherence (\u201cthat have all\nthe Republican (sic) believing\u201d; \u201cYou may have a degree but far from being\n(sic) educated\u201d), the absence of a single example or fact to support your invective,\nand general ignorance about the target of your rant: I have never been a\nregistered Republican, but currently am an Independent\u2014after over thirty years\nof being a registered Democrat. Like most angry readers, you seem to deplore\ndisunity even as your own harangues are clear evidence of why it exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor Davis Hanson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victor Davis Hanson & Associates<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, National\nReview, American Greatness, Tribune Publishing Company, Hillsdale College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanford\/New York\/Chicago\/Hillsdale\/Selma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader: Subject: The Dangers of\u2026YOU Mr. Hanson, It appears that they let just about anyone submit an opinion even a Stanford grad. I guess you didn\u2019t have what it takes to get into Harvard. You are obviously a Republican and that is not a good thing right now. Republicans right now are […]<\/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-39E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9633,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9633-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12130,"position":0},"title":"From an Angry Reader: The\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"November 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: The new kind of Republican party is part 1930\u2019s Nazi and 1950\u2019s Dixiecrat. 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I think he did quite well considering that Republicans vowed on the first day not to work with him and never did! \u00a0Connie Knapp Victor Davis Hanson's Reply: Dear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11757,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-04-03-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":12130,"position":2},"title":"Angry Reader 04-03-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Well, a quick scan of your website revealed you actually have a whole section dedicated to \u201cAngry Reader\u201d mail. One would think, a man of your so-called intellect, would perhaps have a small moment of introspection and realize the true damage Donald Trump and the current\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Angry Reader"","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/can-trump-successfully-remodel-the-gop\/","url_meta":{"origin":12130,"position":3},"title":"Can Trump Successfully Remodel the GOP?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review If Trumpism succeeds, it could replace mainstream Republicanism. The Republican-party establishment is caught in an existential paradox. Without Donald Trump\u2019s populist and nationalist 2016 campaign, the GOP probably would not have won the presidency. Nor would Republicans now enjoy such lopsided control of state\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Trump"","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9501,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":12130,"position":4},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"Megan Ring","date":"October 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from a Reader: Dear Mr. Hanson; I left the Republican Party soon after watching eight years of ineffective \"leadership\" by Mitch McConnell, John Bohner, and now Paul Ryan. But the tipping point came when Trump was nominated for president. 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