{"id":12444,"date":"2020-06-25T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12444"},"modified":"2020-06-24T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T21:41:32","slug":"what-happens-when-the-madness-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-happens-when-the-madness-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When the Madness Ends?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>When Normal People Grow Weary&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One is when \u201caverage\u201d people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy\u2014and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience. At some point, tonight\u2019s hero on YouTube torching Wendy\u2019s or kicking a downed policeman on CNN, becomes tomorrow\u2019s commonplace, unnoticed felon\u2014with a new warrant issued out on his head, and about whose fate and lengthy CV no one other than his parents much cares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/06\/21\/what-happens-when-the-madness-ends\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when?&nbsp; There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both.&nbsp; When Normal People Grow Weary&nbsp; One is when \u201caverage\u201d people, both white [&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-3eI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11427,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/kavanaughs-testimony-was-his-joseph-n-welch-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":12444,"position":0},"title":"Kavanaugh\u2019s Testimony Was His Joseph N. 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