{"id":12840,"date":"2021-02-01T12:03:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12840"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:04:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:04:47","slug":"new-mccarthyism-will-prove-an-orwellian-mistake-says-us-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/new-mccarthyism-will-prove-an-orwellian-mistake-says-us-historian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New McCarthyism will prove an Orwellian mistake,\u2019 says US historian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pavlos Papadopoulos \/\/ Ekathimerini.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend of Greece and regular visitor to the country, Victor Davis Hanson is a rare breed of American intellectual: The professor of classics and military history at the California State University and senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institute has supported Donald Trump in a number of books and articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an email interview with Kathimerini, Hanson offered his opinion on recent developments in Washington, shedding light from a conservative angle on a number of issues that define modern America.<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you think that Trump went too far in inciting violence, ignoring the fact that in the previous&nbsp;two months all legislatures in disputed&nbsp;states and all judges had already decided that the claims of a \u201cstolen election\u201d were baseless, proving that there was no election fraud?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/261462\/article\/ekathimerini\/comment\/new-mccarthyism-will-prove-an-orwellian-mistake-says-us-historian\">Read the full transcript here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pavlos Papadopoulos \/\/ Ekathimerini.com A friend of Greece and regular visitor to the country, Victor Davis Hanson is a rare breed of American intellectual: The professor of classics and military history at the California State University and senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University\u2019s Hoover Institute has supported Donald Trump in 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-3l6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11838,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-us-china-confrontation-will-define-global-order\/","url_meta":{"origin":12840,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: US-China Confrontation Will Define Global Order","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 21, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The United States is at a crossroads with an increasingly aggressive China, which could define America\u2019s security and the international order for decades to come, Hoover scholar\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0says.Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the\u00a0Hoover Institution, studies military history and the classics. 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