Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness America will weather its current hysterias. But the tensions and furor are reminiscent of the last generations of the Roman Republic. In its last century, Romans began to adjudicate politics by obsequious partisan town criers (their version of our media), mass demonstrations, and freelance street gangs. Looters, arsonists, and […]<\/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-3jo","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6614,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-as-chaos\/","url_meta":{"origin":12734,"position":0},"title":"Obama as Chaos","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0PJ Media\u00a0 Amid all the charges and countercharges in Washington over the government shutdown, there is at least one common theme: Barack Obama\u2019s various charges always lead to a dead end. They are chaos, and chaos is hard to understand, much less refute. By that I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Commentary"","block_context":{"text":"Commentary","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/obama-administration\/commentary-obama-administration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13827,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-classicist-dealing-with-chaos\/","url_meta":{"origin":12734,"position":1},"title":"The Classicist: Dealing With Chaos","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Art19 and Just the News https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/the-victor-davis-hanson-show\/episodes\/5460bd0c-0d11-4049-b787-40ba3129c7b5","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12452,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-will-win-if-he-responds-to-righteous-voter-rage\/","url_meta":{"origin":12734,"position":2},"title":"Trump Will Win If He Responds to Righteous Voter Rage","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The 2020 election will be decided in the fall by swing voters in ten or 15 states. Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, those voters were leaning to reelect President Trump, largely on the powers of incumbency and a near-record vibrant economy. The Democratic left-wing\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11396,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/is-chaos-an-impeachable-offense\/","url_meta":{"origin":12734,"position":3},"title":"Is Chaos an Impeachable Offense?","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Trump is destabilizing the status quo, as he promised to do. The keepers of the status quo cry foul. Until 2017, there were certain political assumptions that most people no longer really believed but also preferred not to question \u2014 given the likely animus\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Donald Trump"","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3858,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/thoughts-on-chaos-revolution-and-radicalism\/","url_meta":{"origin":12734,"position":4},"title":"Thoughts on Chaos, Revolution, and Radicalism","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson NRO's\u00a0The Corner Everywhere But Iraq? No one quite knows all the causes of the unrest in Tunisia, now spreading to Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, or how this will all end, and whether this seemingly middle-class revolt dovetails to the 2009 demonstrations in Iran\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Foreign Policy"","block_context":{"text":"Foreign Policy","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/obama-administration\/foreign-policy\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12144,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-chaos-in-europe-its-tricky-being-worlds-largest-importer-of-gas-oil-and-critic-too\/","url_meta":{"origin":12734,"position":5},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Chaos in Europe \u2013 It’s tricky being world’s largest importer of gas, oil and critic, too","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar\u00a0agendas, Europe remains by far the world\u2019s largest importer of oil and natural gas. Oil output in the North Sea and off the coast of Norway is declining, and the European Union is quietly\u00a0looking\u00a0for fossil\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12736,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12734\/revisions\/12736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}