{"id":12964,"date":"2021-03-15T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2021-03-15T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T17:05:49","slug":"the-legends-of-our-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-legends-of-our-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legends of Our Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many politicians at one point or another live by lies\u2014if they can get away with them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our supposed sentinels, the media\u2014self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists\u2014are supposed to separate political fictions from truth.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Legends As Facts<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, sometimes they used to do that\u2014if only selectively. There were Communist sympathizers in the Roosevelt Administration and holdovers in the 1950s deep state. But the Red Peril was not always what the demagogic Joe McCarthy claimed when shaking his lengthy, indiscriminate \u201clists\u201d of \u201ccommie\u201d names and crimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/14\/the-legends-of-our-fall\/\">Read More&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Many politicians at one point or another live by lies\u2014if they can get away with them.&nbsp; Our supposed sentinels, the media\u2014self-defined as independent, cynical, and skeptical journalists\u2014are supposed to separate political fictions from truth.&nbsp;&nbsp; Legends As Facts&nbsp; Of course, sometimes they used to do that\u2014if only selectively. 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