{"id":12245,"date":"2020-03-12T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2020-03-12T23:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T06:11:26","slug":"the-portentous-biden-blowup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-portentous-biden-blowup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portentous Biden Blowup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden lost it again on the campaign trail at an auto plant being built in Detroit, and in a now familiar script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His blowup had all his characteristic theatrics of prior such encounters. There were the shouting at blue-collar workers, the he-man, corn-pop-like braggadocio, the ad hominem expletives (\u201cyou\u2019re full of s***!\u201d), the invasion of one\u2019s personal space with his habitual wagging finger, the personal invective (\u201chorse\u2019s a**\u201d), and, of course, being wrong on the issues and accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It certainly is reasonable to assume that, given Biden\u2019s promise to put Beto O\u2019Rourke (\u201cHell, yes, we\u2019re going to take your AR-15\u201d) in charge of a President Biden\u2019s Second Amendment policies, a normal voter rightly could fear that Biden either wants, or would allow, bans on certain type of guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This latest incident joins lots of others, such as the Iowa one-on-one with an apparently portly male questioner: \u201cYou\u2019re a damn liar, and that\u2019s not true. . . . I\u2019m not sedentary. You want to check my shape on, let\u2019s do push-ups together, let\u2019s run, let\u2019s do whatever you want to do, let\u2019s take an IQ test. . . . Look, fat . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or the brush-up with the young woman in New Hampshire: \u201cYou ever been to a caucus? No, you haven\u2019t. You\u2019re a lying, dog-faced pony soldier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are told all this is baked into the Good Ol\u2019 Joe from Scranton persona, and his supporters no more care than the MAGA audiences do when it comes to Trump\u2019s tweets and disparaging epithets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-portentous-biden-blow-up\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Joe Biden lost it again on the campaign trail at an auto plant being built in Detroit, and in a now familiar script. His blowup had all his characteristic theatrics of prior such encounters. There were the shouting at blue-collar workers, the he-man, corn-pop-like braggadocio, the ad hominem expletives [&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-3bv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11982,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-or-bust\/","url_meta":{"origin":12245,"position":0},"title":"Biden or Bust?","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 12, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Pundits and politicos play the current parlor game of counting Joe Biden\u2019s daily bloopers, signs of debility, or embarrassments. 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