{"id":12914,"date":"2021-03-04T08:53:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12914"},"modified":"2021-03-04T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T16:53:31","slug":"trumpism-without-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumpism-without-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"“Trumpism without Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office. He was the first to be impeached without the chief justice of the United States presiding over his trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His nonstop complaining about the stolen \u201clandslide\u201d election was blamed by many as a distraction that lost two Republican Senate seats from Georgia. Joe Biden\u2019s current Democratic majority Congress was the result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.  Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, and first to be tried as a private citizen when out of office. 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