{"id":12757,"date":"2020-12-09T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12757"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T01:59:26","slug":"our-brave-new-biden-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-brave-new-biden-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Brave New Biden World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>America&nbsp;traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion of our politics. But the new powers of social media, Silicon Valley, and a woke media have made reality-changing now a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly Antifa and BLM have all but disappeared from their\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/burning-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\">heroic barricades<\/a>. Where and why did they go? Did they ever really exist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mysteriously, a week or two before the election, the flood of violence in our major cities began downsizing to a tiny trickle. How strange that former angry throngs are now in nearly suspended animation. Are all those black kneepads, helmets, and umbrellas now in closets? Are all those whiny Pajama Boys on the barricades back teaching in their Zoom classrooms, or taking their college Zoom classes in their parents\u2019 basements?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What changed? What in the world convinced committed revolutionaries to cease their long march to revolutionary justice?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/12\/our-brave-new-biden-world\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review America&nbsp;traditionally has not reinvented reality after an election, although prior presidential winners have often tried, as in the fashion of our politics. But the new powers of social media, Silicon Valley, and a woke media have made reality-changing now a reality. Suddenly Antifa and BLM have all but disappeared [&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-3jL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4022,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/back-to-the-60s-barricades\/","url_meta":{"origin":12757,"position":0},"title":"Back to the &#8217;60s Barricades","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 13, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson The American Enterprise Magazine On matters of national security, Democrats are back on their 1960s barricades. 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I think the consensus is that while stopping Assad\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Syria&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Syria","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/the-middle-east\/syria\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12826,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-after-trump-era-begins\/","url_meta":{"origin":12757,"position":3},"title":"The &#8216;After Trump&#8217; Era Begins","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Patriot Post The new AT age \u2014 \u201cAfter Trump\u201d \u2014 began on either Election Day, Nov. 3, or on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. But either way, reality as we had known it for four years has been abruptly reinvented. 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