{"id":12953,"date":"2021-03-13T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12953"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T22:22:31","slug":"the-progressive-imaginarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-progressive-imaginarium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Progressive Imaginarium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cT-Bone\u201d lives in the progressive Imaginarium.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) conjured him up as his fake pal from the \u2019hood. The \u201cBone\u201d would now and then materialize to prep the yuppie Booker on his street cred.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cT\u201d was the umbilical cord of authenticity with the underprivileged black community for Booker\u2014the vegetarian, Rhodes scholar, Stanford- and Yale-educated, privileged child of two IBM executives.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCorn-pop\u201d also resides in the Imaginarium. Good ol\u2019 Joe Biden from Scranton occasionally would summon the \u201cPop.\u201d Supposedly he was one tough, African American, razor-wielding gangster that the youthful Mighty Joe Biden won over.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But first, as a lifeguard of an inner-city swimming pool, defiant, and armed with his own 6-feet of chain, Joe told us he taught Pop the meaning of obedience.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his impromptu s\u00e9ances, Joe has conjured up lots of Imaginarium denizens. Along with Corn Pop, there was the anonymous bully\u2014son of a donut shop owner\u2014whose head Joe slammed down on the counter. The felony? The brute had insulted his sister and the Biden family name.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/10\/the-progressive-imaginarium\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness \u201cT-Bone\u201d lives in the progressive Imaginarium.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) conjured him up as his fake pal from the \u2019hood. The \u201cBone\u201d would now and then materialize to prep the yuppie Booker on his street cred.&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cT\u201d was the umbilical cord of authenticity with the underprivileged black community for [&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-3mV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1439,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obamas-imaginarium\/","url_meta":{"origin":12953,"position":0},"title":"Obama&#8217;s Imaginarium","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. 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