{"id":12703,"date":"2020-11-06T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12703"},"modified":"2020-11-05T12:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:09:59","slug":"donald-trump-counterrevolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/donald-trump-counterrevolutionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump, Counterrevolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until Donald Trump\u2019s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized\u2014with the United States increasingly its greatest and most \u201cwoke\u201d advocate. We know its bipartisan establishment contours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China would inherit the world in 20 or 30 years. The self-appointed task of American elites\u2014many of whom had already been enriched and compromised by Chinese partners and joint ventures\u2014was to facilitate this all-in-the-family transition in the manner of the imperial British hand-off of hegemony to the United States in the late 1940s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our best and brightest like the Biden family, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg would enlighten us about the \u201creal\u201d China, so we yokels would not fall into Neanderthal bitterness as they managed our foreordained decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would usher China into \u201cthe world community\u201d\u2014grimacing at, but overlooking the destruction it wrought on the global commercial order and the American interior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would politely forget about Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, and the Uyghurs. Hollywood would nod as it put out more lucrative comic-book and cartoonish films for the Chinese markets, albeit with mandated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/hollywood-casting-china-colorism-light-skinned-df469d97-66c2-4b33-b41e-1feb29bf1f75.html\">lighter-skinned actors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2020\/11\/01\/donald-trump-counterrevolutionary\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Until Donald Trump\u2019s arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized\u2014with the United States increasingly its greatest and most \u201cwoke\u201d advocate. We know its bipartisan establishment contours. China would inherit the world in 20 or 30 years. The self-appointed task of American elites\u2014many of whom had already been [&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":10977,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/whos-really-winning-the-north-korea-standoff\/","url_meta":{"origin":12703,"position":0},"title":"Who\u2019s Really Winning the North Korea Standoff?","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 15, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There have been wild reports that the United States is considering a \u201cbloody nose\u201d preemptive attack of some sort on North Korea\u2019s nuclear arsenal. 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