{"id":12916,"date":"2021-03-05T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T02:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2021-03-04T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T01:58:02","slug":"trumpism-without-trump-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trumpism-without-trump-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpism\u2014Without Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Six weeks ago, Americans were assured that Donald Trump had left the presidency on January 20, 2021 disgraced and forever ruined politically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans were assured by Trump\u2019s impeachment Senate prosecutors and the media that the January 6 Capitol assault was his fault alone. So Trump was condemned as a veritable murderer, responsible for five deaths at the Capitol. Many of his own advisors and cabinet members loudly resigned in disgust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/03\/trumpism-without-trump\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.&nbsp; 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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