{"id":12648,"date":"2020-10-03T13:12:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12648"},"modified":"2020-10-03T13:13:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:13:03","slug":"our-socialist-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-socialist-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Socialist Future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd while in custody of officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, protesters demanded the fair prosecution of those responsible. Yet quickly the demonstrations devolved into a veritable cultural revolution, spearheaded by two groups, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, both with strong socialist origins and agendas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/our-socialist-future\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review After the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd while in custody of officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, protesters demanded the fair prosecution of those responsible. Yet quickly the demonstrations devolved into a veritable cultural revolution, spearheaded by two groups, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, both with strong [&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-3i0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11810,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-socialist-is-bernie-sanders\/","url_meta":{"origin":12648,"position":0},"title":"How Socialist Is Bernie Sanders?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Please read this piece by my colleague Paul Roderick Gregory published\u00a0by\u00a0Hoover\u00a0Institution The candidacy of Bernie Sanders for the Democratic nomination raises the real prospect of an avowed socialist as President of the United States. 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