{"id":12827,"date":"2021-01-30T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T18:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12827"},"modified":"2021-01-28T18:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:45:34","slug":"how-to-deprogram-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-to-deprogram-us\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Deprogram Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anew buzzword on social media, cable news, and among leftist activists is \u201cdeprogramming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with terms like \u201creprogramming,\u201d \u201cde-Baathification,\u201d and \u201cdeplatforming,\u201d deprogramming refers to cleansing the incorrect mentalities of former Trump Administration officials\u2014and even those who voted for Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that deprogramming does not refer to elites who peddled the \u201cRussian collusion\u201d hoax for years, despite the abject absence of evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not long ago, two&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;columnists offered some solutions to the Trumpist threat. One, Max Boot, wished to ban Fox News and other conservative stations from cable subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other, Eugene Robinson, suggested that there was a need to focus on mostly \u201cwhite\u201d Republicans to \u201cdeprogram\u201d their thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/01\/27\/how-to-deprogram-us\/\">Read the full article here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Anew buzzword on social media, cable news, and among leftist activists is \u201cdeprogramming.\u201d Along with terms like \u201creprogramming,\u201d \u201cde-Baathification,\u201d and \u201cdeplatforming,\u201d deprogramming refers to cleansing the incorrect mentalities of former Trump Administration officials\u2014and even those who voted for Trump. Note that deprogramming does not refer to elites who peddled [&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-3kT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12819,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-river-of-forgetfulness\/","url_meta":{"origin":12827,"position":0},"title":"The River of Forgetfulness","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 27, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Riotous rogue Trump supporters who broke into the Capitol on January 6 were properly and widely condemned by conservatives. 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