{"id":12575,"date":"2020-08-21T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2020-08-19T22:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:24:57","slug":"ten-2020-issues-policies-personalities-and-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-2020-issues-policies-personalities-and-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten 2020 Issues, Policies, Personalities \u2014 and Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The nation has never seen an  election like this. A mysterious virus from China has terrified the  country, killed perhaps 180,000 Americans, and is now weaponized as a  political asset to neuter the president. Half the country is still in de  facto quarantine. Governments \u2014 national, state, and\u00a0 local \u2014 for the  first time have induced an artificial but severe\u00a0recession. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country is convulsed by riots, looting, and urban violence, but \nwith the novelty that many governors and mayors have either turned a \nblind eye to the anarchy or contextualized it as a legitimate reaction \nto social injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe Biden has been incommunicado for nearly four months, so much so \nthat the Democratic Party believes that his vice-presidential running \nmate may well be the next president much sooner than later. And the \nmedia seek to shield Biden from himself by aborting normal journalistic \nscrutiny \u2014 on the unspoken surety that he is not cogitatively able to \nconduct a normal campaign and, indeed, in one unguarded moment of \nconfusion and bewilderment, might well sink the entire 2020 progressive \nagenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The result is a virtual candidate, with virtual issues, and a virtual\n campaign. How then can we adjudicate what issues will matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/08\/2020-election-10-key-issues-policies-personalities-chance\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The nation has never seen an election like this. A mysterious virus from China has terrified the country, killed perhaps 180,000 Americans, and is now weaponized as a political asset to neuter the president. Half the country is still in de facto quarantine. Governments \u2014 national, state, and\u00a0 local [&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-3gP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11621,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/should-the-fbi-run-the-country\/","url_meta":{"origin":12575,"position":0},"title":"Should the FBI Run the Country?","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Since the media would doubtless answer that loaded question, \u201cIt depends on the president,\u201d let us imagine the following scenario. 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