{"id":12826,"date":"2021-01-29T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12826"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:44:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:44:11","slug":"the-after-trump-era-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-after-trump-era-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘After Trump’ Era Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Patriot Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pfizer had hinted that a vaccine could be ready in late October. Then, mysteriously, it wasn\u2019t. Then, stranger still, it appeared \u2014 a few days after Election Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, after Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, Illinois, Michigan and other blue states eased some of their lockdown restrictions to get their economies back on track despite little change in COVID-19 rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Trump Age, the president was supposedly responsible for every death from COVID-19. Now, the media reports that career scientists and health administrators in the federal government, especially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were largely to blame for past slow testing, and were tardy and lax in apprising the nation of the infectious threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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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