{"id":12861,"date":"2021-02-14T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12861"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:03:55","slug":"the-world-goes-on-while-america-sleeps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-world-goes-on-while-america-sleeps\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Goes On While America Sleeps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratically-controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who is no longer president.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquittal is predetermined, as in the first impeachment effort a year ago\u2014and known to be so to the Democratic prosecutors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The constitutionally mandated presiding judge\u2014the chief justice of the United States\u2014refused to show up.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts apparently believes an impeachment trial of a private citizen is either a waste of time or unconstitutional\u2014or both.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic House of Representatives is busy ferreting out purportedly extremist Republican members. For the first time in memory, one party now removes committee members of the other.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/02\/10\/the-world-goes-on-while-america-sleeps\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Democratically-controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who is no longer president.&nbsp; The acquittal is predetermined, as in the first impeachment effort a year ago\u2014and known to be so to the Democratic prosecutors.&nbsp; The constitutionally mandated presiding judge\u2014the chief justice of [&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-3lr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12916,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumpism-without-trump-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":12861,"position":0},"title":"Trumpism\u2014Without Trump?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically.\u00a0 Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12173,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/up-schiffs-creek\/","url_meta":{"origin":12861,"position":1},"title":"Up Schiff&#8217;s Creek","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Adam Schiff is starting to wear on his own. 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