{"id":12842,"date":"2021-02-02T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12842"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:04:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:04:38","slug":"why-are-progressives-so-illiberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-are-progressives-so-illiberal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Progressives So Illiberal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One common theme in the abject madness and tragedies of the past 12 months is that progressive ideology now permeates almost all of our major institutions\u2014even as the majority of Americans resist the leftist agenda. Its reach resembles the manner in which the pre-Renaissance church had absorbed the economic, cultural, social, artistic, and political life of Europe, or perhaps how Islamic doctrine was the foundation for all public and private life under the Ottoman Sultanate\u2014or even how all Russian institutions of the 1930s exuded tenets of Soviet Marxism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Pan-progressivism<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>To be a Silicon Valley executive, a prominent Wall Street player, the head of a prestigious publishing house, a university president, a network or PBS anchor, a major Hollywood actress, a retired general or admiral on a corporate board, or a NBA superstar requires either progressive fides or careful suppression of all political affinities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Center for Responsive Politics,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/11\/02\/tech-billionaire-2020-election-donations-final-tally.html\"><em>98 percent<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;of Big Tech political donations went to Democrats in 2020<\/em>. Censorship and deplatforming on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media companies is decidedly one-way. When Mark Zuckerberg and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.einnews.com\/pr_news\/532866119\/amistad-project-exposes-influence-of-mark-zuckerberg-s-dark-money-network-in-2020-election\">others<\/a>&nbsp;in Silicon Valley donate $500 million to help officials \u201cget out the vote\u201d in particular precincts, it is not to help candidates of both parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/01\/31\/why-are-progressives-so-illiberal\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One common theme in the abject madness and tragedies of the past 12 months is that progressive ideology now permeates almost all of our major institutions\u2014even as the majority of Americans resist the leftist agenda. Its reach resembles the manner in which the pre-Renaissance church had absorbed the economic, [&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-3l8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12665,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/destroying-the-institutions-we-inherited\/","url_meta":{"origin":12842,"position":0},"title":"Destroying the Institutions We Inherited","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review In\u00a0the 21st century, hallmark American and international institutions have lost much of their prestige and respect. 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