{"id":12600,"date":"2020-09-03T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12600"},"modified":"2020-09-01T18:49:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T01:49:02","slug":"silence-about-the-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/silence-about-the-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence About the Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&nbsp;is not just conservatives at the recent Republican National Convention who wonder why the Democratic Party and its media appendages have not without qualification decried the looting, arson, violence, and occasional killing that have swept the nation\u2019s cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently even left-wing CNN\u2019s incendiary Don Lemon wondered out loud why Joe Biden and the Democratic powers have not at least tried to square the circle of deploring police overreach while at the same time going through the motions of condemning the utter lawlessness that often breaks out at dusk in Chicago, Portland, and Seattle, and now in smaller cities such as Kenosha, Wis. What Lemon praised in June, he now seems terrified about in August. But for that matter, most retired generals and media anchors who assured us in June that there were only a \u201csmall\u201d number of violent protesters have long grown silent after the occupation of Seattle and the Alamo siege of the police precinct in Portland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fight of voter backlash about crime has infected the entire Democratic elite \u2014 glued to volatile internal polls that do not lie \u2014 whether it is Nancy Pelosi\u2019s demanding no debates, Michelle Obama\u2019s obsessing with \u201cVote! Vote! And Vote!\u201d or Hillary Clinton\u2019s urging Biden to never \u201cunder any circumstances\u201d concede the election that apparently she now believes he could well lose.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/silence-about-the-violence\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review It&nbsp;is not just conservatives at the recent Republican National Convention who wonder why the Democratic Party and its media appendages have not without qualification decried the looting, arson, violence, and occasional killing that have swept the nation\u2019s cities. Recently even left-wing CNN\u2019s incendiary Don Lemon wondered out loud why [&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-3he","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9792,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-democrat-patient\/","url_meta":{"origin":12600,"position":0},"title":"The Democrat Patient","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 31, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review Ignoring the symptoms, misdiagnosing the malady, skipping the treatment If progressives were to become empiricists, they would look at the symptoms of the last election and come up with disinterested diagnoses, therapies, and prognoses. 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