{"id":12301,"date":"2020-04-08T13:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12301"},"modified":"2020-04-08T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:55:49","slug":"corona-meltdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/corona-meltdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona Meltdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the coronavirus outbreak begins to reach its zenith, it remains unclear whether the measures taken to stem its tide will prove sufficient, insufficient, or an overreaction. What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated no capacity for leadership or usefulness in this moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nancy Pelosi:\u00a0<\/strong>Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party\u2019s\u00a0<em>cursus honorum<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It does not matter whether her political and ethical decline was a result of her deep pathological hatred of Donald Trump. Who cares that her paranoia arose over the so-called \u201cSquad\u201d that might align with socialist Bernie Sanders to mesmerize Democrats to march over the cliff into McGovern-like oblivion? All concede that very few octogenarians have the stamina and clarity to put in the 16-hour work-days and transcontinental travel required by a Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, all that matters is that for a nation in extremis she is now puerile, even unhinged\u2014and increasingly dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/04\/05\/corona-meltdowns\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness As the coronavirus outbreak begins to reach its zenith, it remains unclear whether the measures taken to stem its tide will prove sufficient, insufficient, or an overreaction. What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated no capacity for leadership or [&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-3cp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12190,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-once-and-future-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":12301,"position":0},"title":"The Once and Future Scandal","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 12, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Now that the four-and-a-half-month-long Ukraine impeachment bookend to the 22-month Mueller charade is over, it clearly accomplished nothing other than substantially raising the polls of both Donald Trump and the Republican Party. 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