{"id":12194,"date":"2020-02-14T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12194"},"modified":"2020-02-13T16:19:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T00:19:34","slug":"the-democrats-february-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-democrats-february-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats\u2019 February Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All&nbsp;political parties and candidates have bad days. But the new progressive Democratic Party had four of its worst days in recent memory in a single week in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On February 3, the Iowa caucuses imploded for the first time in their history. The new app-driven counting melted down, discrediting the very idea of caucusing in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner \u2014 Pete Buttigieg by two delegates over Bernie Sanders \u2014 was not known for days. The mess was ironic in at a number of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democrats are the party of the Silicon Valley. They pride themselves on being on the cutting edge of youthful computer culture. But the inability to count simple votes was a bitter reminder that they understand the cyberworld no better than their Republican opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters might remember the 2013 meltdown of the Obamacare website, the abject failure of Hillary Clinton\u2019s supposedly sophisticated 2016 campaign analytics, and the incompetence of supposedly tech-driven 2016 polling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/02\/democrats-impeachment-state-of-the-union-iowa-caucuses\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review All&nbsp;political parties and candidates have bad days. But the new progressive Democratic Party had four of its worst days in recent memory in a single week in February. On February 3, the Iowa caucuses imploded for the first time in their history. The new app-driven counting melted down, discrediting [&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-3aG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9832,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/californias-polarization\/","url_meta":{"origin":12194,"position":0},"title":"California\u2019s Polarization","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Richard Sousa Monday, February 6, 2017 With all due respect, I believe my colleague Sam Abrams has it all wrong. 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