{"id":12523,"date":"2020-07-29T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T22:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12523"},"modified":"2020-07-29T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T22:47:52","slug":"where-are-the-new-heroes-of-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/where-are-the-new-heroes-of-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the New Heroes of the Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since late May, the United States has been convulsed by a cultural revolution unlike any seen in its recent history. Statues have been toppled, often without any logic or consistent grievance. Institutions have been renamed, again without coherent consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian iconography has been a common target. Television shows have been taken off the air; particular corporations boycotted; professional sports recalibrated into social activist spectacles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there is any common denominator to this madness, it is apparently that the past was toxic, and erasing it in the present will make for a more just and united future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, because of the glorification of the imperialist and spoiler of native paradise Christopher Columbus, his statue in Chicago must be removed nocturnally by the order of the mayor\u2014in order to restore peace of mind, social justice, and calm. That act of iconoclasm will rectify things in the present, and thus there will not be another 500 annual homicides in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once names are replaced and commemoration destroyed, what exactly follows the erased?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/07\/26\/where-are-the-new-heroes-of-the-revolution\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Since late May, the United States has been convulsed by a cultural revolution unlike any seen in its recent history. Statues have been toppled, often without any logic or consistent grievance. Institutions have been renamed, again without coherent consistency. Christian iconography has been a common target. Television shows have [&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-3fZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11512,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-present-american-revolution\/","url_meta":{"origin":12523,"position":0},"title":"The Present American Revolution","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The revolution of 1776 sought to turn a colony of Great Britain into a new independent republic based on constitutionally protected freedom. 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