{"id":12481,"date":"2020-07-13T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12481"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:49:40","slug":"trump-needs-to-scale-the-real-wall-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-needs-to-scale-the-real-wall-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Needs to Scale the Real Wall of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump is trying to break through a 2020 wall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By January 2019, after over three years of failed efforts to impeach him, sue him, indict him, impoverish him, and destroy him, the Left had failed. The economy was booming. Trump\u2019s tweets were mostly bragging about his accomplishments. And the Left was dumbfounded that both impeachment and Mueller, in Nietzschean fashion, had only made Trump stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then came an unexpected trifecta catastrophe\u2014plague, a quarantine-induced recession, and a leftist cultural revolution in the streets. Suddenly, the Left saw all of that as a gift that might succeed where its own self-constructed melodramas had failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By late May, Trump\u2019s polls had dived.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His enemies declared this time he was really, actually, truly finished. NeverTrumpers hit the media to boast they were finally redeemed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discredited pollsters of 2016 reemerged, this time even convincing once-burned, never-again Las Vegas bookies that Trump was toast. Leftists, depressed over the progressive implosion in the Democratic primaries, now rebranded Joe Biden as a useful septuagenarian. He could carry them to victory before being pushed aside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/07\/12\/trump-needs-to-scale-the-real-wall-of-2020\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Donald Trump is trying to break through a 2020 wall.&nbsp; By January 2019, after over three years of failed efforts to impeach him, sue him, indict him, impoverish him, and destroy him, the Left had failed. The economy was booming. Trump\u2019s tweets were mostly bragging about his accomplishments. 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