{"id":12871,"date":"2021-02-18T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:00:16","slug":"the-wages-of-trump-hatred-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-wages-of-trump-hatred-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wages of Trump Hatred"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatnes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease and was often characterized by an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More practically, often the deranged Trump hater found in his odium a cover for all sorts of prior personal intemperance and careerist dissipation. Loudly hating Trump became a passport for excess, private and public, and a sort of preemptive insurance that excused or rather greenlighted smears, slander, and personal misdeeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Anti-Lincoln Project<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For over a year, the theme of the NeverTrump Lincoln Project was the organizers\u2019 professed superior morality. They had it; most others on the Right did not. Only a select heroic few of the Republican Party would dare to break ranks to end the danger to the country posed by a supposedly morally inferior Donald Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Forget Trump\u2019s economic, domestic, cultural, and foreign policy record that had belied critics by its successes\u2014despite historic opposition, investigation, denigration, and obstruction. No matter. Character was king. Again, the Lincoln Project had it; Trump followers did not.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/02\/14\/the-wages-of-trump-hatred\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatnes Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease and was often characterized by an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics.&nbsp; More practically, often the deranged Trump hater [&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-3lB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12869,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-wages-of-trump-hatred\/","url_meta":{"origin":12871,"position":0},"title":"The Wages of Trump Hatred","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/ American Greatness Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. 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