{"id":12819,"date":"2021-01-27T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2021-01-25T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T22:04:43","slug":"the-river-of-forgetfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-river-of-forgetfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"The River of Forgetfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riotous rogue Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 were properly and widely condemned by conservatives. They were somewhat reminiscent of the mobs of fanatic leftists and union members that a decade ago stormed the Wisconsin state capitol at Madison, or the unpunished hundreds of rioters who created havoc on Washington, D.C. streets during the Trump 2016 inauguration. We expect the Capitol stormers will be punished, and not in the lax fashion of the latter two groups that were not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within a few days, the talking points were finalized that all of Donald Trump\u2019s supporters deserved blame for the violence. That riot, the Trump defeat, and the loss of the Senate have greenlighted left-wing talk of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/01\/22\/deprogramming-you\/\">deprogramming<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/14\/msnbcs-joy-reid-calls-for-de-baathification-of-the-gop\/\">de-Baathification<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/01\/can-trumps-cult-of-followers-be-deprogrammed\">re-educating<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/growing-calls-media-trump-supporters-043043589.html\">reprogramming<\/a>\u201d half the country to ensure they think correctly and act properly from now on\u2014the exact methodology of such brain rinsing apparently to be announced later.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we are beginning a great reprogramming of America. The construction of Trump and all of his supporters as abettors, terrorists, seditionists, and traitors is certainly proving useful. After the Capitol conundrum, we have seen over the past two weeks a coordinated and synchronized effort by Amazon, Twitter, and Google to destroy Parler, a small conservative-friendly rival to their social media and internet monopolies. More of such humanitarian taking care of business will follow\u2014all as preemption for the most leftwing agenda in a half-century now rolling out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/01\/24\/the-river-of-forgetfulness\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Riotous rogue Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 were properly and widely condemned by conservatives. They were somewhat reminiscent of the mobs of fanatic leftists and union members that a decade ago stormed the Wisconsin state capitol at Madison, or the unpunished hundreds of rioters [&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-3kL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12791,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/assault-on-the-capitol-has-let-loose-the-electronic-octopus\/","url_meta":{"origin":12819,"position":0},"title":"Assault on the Capitol Has Let Loose the Electronic Octopus","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Two\u00a0days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. 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