{"id":12677,"date":"2020-10-21T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12677"},"modified":"2020-10-20T18:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T01:35:54","slug":"a-few-cracks-in-the-progressive-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-few-cracks-in-the-progressive-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Cracks in the Progressive Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;contemporary progressive agenda \u2014 of, say, an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren \u2014 has rarely appealed to 51 percent of the American electorate. Most polls show opposition to Court packing and the abolition of the Electoral College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voters don\u2019t seem to like the Green New Deal. They\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/even-kamala-harris-can-no-longer-ignore-the-economic-benefits-of-fracking\/\" target=\"_blank\">oppose fracking bans<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/fact-checking-the-washington-post-on-late-term-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\">late-term abortions<\/a>, open borders, and illegal immigration. Medicare for all and health care for illegal aliens aren\u2019t winning issues. Usually the Left hammers these causes in primaries and then for six months denies their earlier support during the general-election campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, these agendas endure because the Left has been as adroit in operating the levers of American cultural, economic, and social influence and power as it has been unsuccessful in obtaining popular political support for its elite-driven policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, corporate boardrooms, the arts, public schools, higher education, the entertainment industries, Hollywood, the foundations, and professional sports exercise clout unseen at any time in American history.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/10\/a-few-cracks-in-the-progressive-wall\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The&nbsp;contemporary progressive agenda \u2014 of, say, an Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren \u2014 has rarely appealed to 51 percent of the American electorate. Most polls show opposition to Court packing and the abolition of the Electoral College. Voters don\u2019t seem to like the Green New [&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-3it","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11902,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/of-progressive-carnivores-and-cannibals\/","url_meta":{"origin":12677,"position":0},"title":"Of Progressive Carnivores and Cannibals","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Obama-era Democratic Party bears little resemblance to the themes embraced just 11 years ago by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primaries. 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Even party chairman Tom Perez concedes that there are \u201cno\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Kavanaugh&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Kavanaugh","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/kavanaugh\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11479,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/caravan-contradictions\/","url_meta":{"origin":12677,"position":3},"title":"Caravan Contradictions","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness A\u201ccaravan\u201d\u2014the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans\u2014of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. The marchers promise they will continue 1,000 miles and more northward to the U.S. border, despite warnings from President Trump that as unauthorized immigrants\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mexico&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mexico","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/mexico\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11765,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-04-04-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":12677,"position":4},"title":"Angry Reader 04-04-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Sir: I thought you were supposed to be an intellectual. Hoover Institution and all that. Then you go off on an illegal immigrant killing an American. That's Rush Limbaugh turf. (the 2 semester and out fellow) I guess you're just another partisan propagandist after all. Sorry.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10907,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mythologies-of-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":12677,"position":5},"title":"Mythologies of Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson| American Greatness The illegal immigration debate has come to a head once again. 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