{"id":12562,"date":"2020-08-15T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12562"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T16:15:59","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-us-constitution-and-traditions-are-under-attack-by-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-us-constitution-and-traditions-are-under-attack-by-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: US Constitution and traditions are under attack by Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Democrats are waging war against traditions and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/constitution\">Constitution.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/elizabeth-warren\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>&nbsp;put it, \u201cI plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furor over the Electoral College among the left arose from the 2000 and 2016 elections. Al Gore and Hillary Clinton, respectively, won the popular votes. But, like three earlier presidents, they lost the Electoral College voting \u2014 and with it the presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Founding Fathers saw a purpose in the Electoral College. It ensured that small, rural states would retain importance in national elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/electoral-college-victor-davis-hanson\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Democrats are waging war against traditions and the&nbsp;Constitution. Several of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate&nbsp;Sen. Elizabeth Warren&nbsp;put it, \u201cI plan to be the last American president to be elected by the Electoral College.\u201d Furor over the Electoral [&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-3gC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12100,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-democrats-addicted-to-attacking-trump-even-if-impeachment-drive-hurts-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats addicted to attacking Trump \u2013 Even if impeachment drive hurts them","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Donald Trump\u00a0certainly is mercurial at times. He can be uncouth. But then again, no president in modern memory has been on the receiving end of such overwhelmingly negative media coverage and a three-year\u00a0effort\u00a0to abort his presidency, beginning the day after his election. Do we\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12644,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-medusa\/","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":1},"title":"The Progressive Medusa","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 29, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There was once a tradition of Democratic liberalism. But that wing of the Democratic Party no longer exists and died sometime in the 1990s. Old-style liberalism has been absorbed by Progressivism at best and unapologetic socialism at worst\u2014in a journey on the supposedly predetermined\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11746,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/proposed-voting-changes-are-about-power-not-principles\/","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":2},"title":"Proposed Voting Changes Are About Power, Not Principles","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Progressive candidates and new Democratic representatives have offered lots of radical new proposals lately about voting and voters. They include scrapping the 215-year-old Electoral College. Progressives also talk of extending the vote to 16- or 17-year-olds and ex-felons. They wish to further relax requirements\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Voting Rights\"","block_context":{"text":"Voting Rights","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/tag\/voting-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11939,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/will-2020-be-a-repeat-of-2004-for-democrats\/","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":3},"title":"Will 2020 Be a Repeat of 2004 for Democrats?","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Democrats by 2004 had become obsessed with defeating incumbent President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in the 2000 election, Bush had won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote. Democrats were still furious that Bush supposedly had been \u201cselected\u201d by the Supreme\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11768,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/all-the-progressive-plotters\/","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":4},"title":"All the Progressive Plotters","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein\u2014cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders\u2014sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump\u2019s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social\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":11288,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/just-how-far-will-the-left-go\/","url_meta":{"origin":12562,"position":5},"title":"Just How Far Will the Left Go?","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There was no honeymoon for the unlikely winner of the 2016 election. Progressives have in succession tried to sue to overturn Trump\u2019s victory using several different approaches. First on the bogus claim of fraudulent voting machines. 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