{"id":12157,"date":"2020-01-23T12:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2020-01-23T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:25:25","slug":"government-in-the-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/government-in-the-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"Government in the Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The frenetic opposition to Donald Trump by the Washington establishment, the new progressive, hard-left Democratic party, and in particular the veterans of the Obama administration has led to the ruination of a number of hallowed protocols and customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impeachment has been redefined as a mere vote of no confidence and will become a rank political ploy for years to come once an opposition party gains a majority in the House. It is taking on the flavor of a preemptory device, a vaccination, rather than a medicine, as if to prevent future hypothetical crimes in the absence of current impeachable offenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whistleblowers are now mere political operatives, who work with the opposition party to disseminate second- and third-hand rumor to prompt impeachment frenzies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/01\/anti-trumpers-conduct-shadow-government\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The frenetic opposition to Donald Trump by the Washington establishment, the new progressive, hard-left Democratic party, and in particular the veterans of the Obama administration has led to the ruination of a number of hallowed protocols and customs. Impeachment has been redefined as a mere vote of no confidence [&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-3a5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12106,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/when-hate-becomes-an-agenda\/","url_meta":{"origin":12157,"position":0},"title":"When Hate Becomes an Agenda","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 19, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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If Trump himself is unpopular and polarizing, his agenda is for the most part in sync with a majority of Americans who like the 3% annualized GDP\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2020 Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2020 Election","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/2020-election\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12020,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strategies-of-targeting-trump\/","url_meta":{"origin":12157,"position":4},"title":"The Strategies of Targeting Trump","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There is no logical Democratic explanation for impeaching Donald Trump. 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