{"id":12766,"date":"2021-01-05T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:29:00","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-after-2020-election-heres-how-to-keep-track-of-upside-down-world-of-media-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-after-2020-election-heres-how-to-keep-track-of-upside-down-world-of-media-and-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: After 2020 election \u2013 here&#8217;s how to keep track of upside-down world of media and politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/2020-presidential-election\">Nov. 3<\/a>, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media cross-examination of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">president<\/a>&nbsp;is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a crook when you can focus on his favorite flavor of milkshake or compliment him on his socks?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old pre-election truth was that new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\/vaccines\">vaccines<\/a>\u00a0take years to develop. The new postelection truth is that it\u2019s no big deal to bring out new vaccines in nine months.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Impeaching a first-term president after his first midterm election&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;on a strictly partisan vote, for political reasons other than the Constitution\u2019s &#8220;treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors&#8221;&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;is now a terrible idea.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/after-2020-election-media-politics-victor-davis-hanson\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News After&nbsp;Nov. 3, the meaning of some words and concepts abruptly changed. Have you noticed how new realities have replaced old ones?&nbsp;&nbsp; Media cross-examination of the&nbsp;president&nbsp;is now an out-of-date idea. The time for gotcha questions has come and gone. Why ask a president whether he is a traitor or a [&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-3jU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12100,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-democrats-addicted-to-attacking-trump-even-if-impeachment-drive-hurts-them\/","url_meta":{"origin":12766,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats addicted to attacking Trump \u2013 Even if impeachment drive hurts them","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Donald Trump\u00a0certainly is mercurial at times. 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