{"id":12478,"date":"2020-07-10T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2020-07-09T23:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T06:20:38","slug":"year-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/year-zero\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every&nbsp;cultural revolution starts at year zero, whether explicitly or implicitly. The French Revolution recalibrated the calendar to begin anew, and the genocidal Pol Pot declared his own Cambodian revolutionary ascension as the beginning of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere after May 25, 2020, the death of George Floyd, while in police custody, sparked demonstrations, protests, and riots. And they in turn ushered in a new revolutionary moment. Or at least we were told that \u2014 in part by Black Lives Matter, in part by Antifa, in part by terrified enablers in the corporate world, the new Democratic Party, the military, the universities, and the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was uniquely different about this cultural revolution was how willing and quickly the entire progressive establishment \u2014 elected officials, celebrities, media, universities, foundations, retired military \u2014 was either on the side of the revolution or saw it as useful in aborting the Trump presidency, or was terrified it would be targeted and so wished to appease the Jacobins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reborn America was to end all of the old that had come before and supposedly pay penance for George Floyd\u2019s death and, by symbolic extension, America\u2019s inherent evil since 1619. As in all cultural revolutions, the protestors claimed at first at that they wanted only to erase supposedly reactionary elements: Confederate statues, movies such as&nbsp;<em>Gone with the Wind<\/em>, some hurtful cartoons, and a few cranky conservative professors and what not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/07\/cultural-revolutions-start-year-zero\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Every&nbsp;cultural revolution starts at year zero, whether explicitly or implicitly. The French Revolution recalibrated the calendar to begin anew, and the genocidal Pol Pot declared his own Cambodian revolutionary ascension as the beginning of time. Somewhere after May 25, 2020, the death of George Floyd, while in police custody, [&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-3fg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12568,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-warns-protest-leaders-todays-revolutionary-becomes-tomorrows-counter-revolutionary\/","url_meta":{"origin":12478,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson warns protest leaders: &#8216;Today&#8217;s revolutionary becomes tomorrow&#8217;s counter-revolutionary&#8217;","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 19, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Hoover Institution senior fellow\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson told \"The Ingraham Angle\"\u00a0Monday that the rise of the\u00a0Black Lives Matter\u00a0movement has parallels to other mass movements throughout history, including the French Revolution and the Cultural Revolution in Communist China. 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The Democrats took a gamble and nominated Barack Obama, who became the first\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12211,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/chinas-government-is-like-something-out-of-1984\/","url_meta":{"origin":12478,"position":3},"title":"China\u2019s Government Is Like Something out of 1984","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 21, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The\u00a0Chinese Communist government increasingly poses an existential threat not just to its own 1.4 billion citizens but to the world at large. China is currently in a dangerously chaotic state. And why not, when a premodern authoritarian society leaps wildly into the brave new\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9917,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/talk-radio-cable-news-the-mainstream-media-and-the-news-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":12478,"position":4},"title":"Talk Radio, Cable News, the Mainstream Media, and the News Revolution","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review In the hubbub over Trump\u2019s attack on the media, we sometimes forget that Barack Obama et al. customarily went after talk-radio and cable-news conservatives \u2014 whose job, after all, was opinion journalism \u2014 as biased, whereas Trump went\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13752,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-american-descent-into-madness\/","url_meta":{"origin":12478,"position":5},"title":"The American Descent into Madness","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Jerca Zagorc \/\/ Getty Images Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. 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