{"id":12452,"date":"2020-06-30T18:24:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12452"},"modified":"2020-06-30T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:24:11","slug":"trump-will-win-if-he-responds-to-righteous-voter-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-will-win-if-he-responds-to-righteous-voter-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, those voters were leaning to reelect President Trump, largely on the powers of incumbency and a near-record vibrant economy. The Democratic left-wing primary agendas, from the New Green Deal to reparations, the clownish candidates of the Beto O\u2019Rourke and Corey Booker sort, the arrogance and meltdown of Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden\u2019s cognitive impairment collectively frightened voters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the booming economy, record energy production, record-low minority unemployment and reckoning with China had overshadowed Trump\u2019s cul de sac tweeting, 93 percent unfavorable media coverage, and the three-year slow-motion coup of the 25th Amendment nonsense, Russian \u201ccollusion,\u201d Robert Mueller, Ukraine, and impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came the contagion, the lockdown, the recession, and the collective madness of looting and arson, which in turn led to the present anarchy of statue toppling, cancel culture, name-changing, and McCarthyism 2.0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, a president is blamed for chaos on his watch even if he did not create the chaos. He either stops it and is praised as a winner or, like Jimmy Carter during the Iran hostage crisis of 1979-1980, is written off as a loser.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/06\/28\/trump-will-win-if-he-responds-to-righteous-voter-rage\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, those voters were leaning to reelect President Trump, largely on the powers of incumbency and a near-record vibrant economy. The Democratic left-wing primary agendas, from the New [&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-3eQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11734,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-progressives-should-know-about-trump-voters\/","url_meta":{"origin":12452,"position":0},"title":"What Progressives Should Know About Trump Voters","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ CNN CNN)Progressives wonder how in the world could anyone still support President Donald Trump. 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(Which may greatly satisfy you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11196,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-trump-rationale\/","url_meta":{"origin":12452,"position":3},"title":"The Trump Rationale","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis\u00a0Hanson \/\/ National Review His voters knew what they were getting, and most support him still. Why exactly did nearly half the country vote for Donald Trump? Why also did the arguments of Never Trump Republicans and conservatives have marginal effect on voters? Despite vehement denunciations of the Trump\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11541,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-trump-paradox\/","url_meta":{"origin":12452,"position":4},"title":"The Trump Paradox","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Today,\u00a0Jim Geraghty writes snidely: VDH writes, \u201cThe hostile reaction to Trump is a sort of proof of his success.\u201d Does it follow, then, that if Trump was widely loved, it would be proof of his failure?\u201d Geraghty creates a false either\/or binary. 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