{"id":13179,"date":"2021-04-19T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13179"},"modified":"2021-04-19T09:09:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T16:09:34","slug":"the-joe-biden-who-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-joe-biden-who-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joe Biden Who Never Was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">These are the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive\u2014and certainly the most dangerous. And its catalyst is the myth of ol\u2019 Joe from Scranton who has unleashed furies and hatreds never quite seen in modern American history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cWoke\u201d Joe Biden<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At an age when most long ago embraced a consistent political belief, late septuagenarian Joe Biden suddenly reinvented himself as our first woke president. That is ironic in so many ways because Joe\u2019s past is a wasteland of racialist condescension and prejudicial gaffes. For much of the 1980s and 1990s, he positioned himself as the workingman\u2019s Democrat from Delaware (or, as Biden once beamed,&nbsp;\u201cWe [Delawareans] were on the South\u2019s side in the Civil War.\u201d). In truth, he exuded chauvinism well beyond that of his constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/04\/18\/the-joe-biden-who-never-was\/\">READ MORE &#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness These are the most radical first three months of a presidency since 1933, the most divisive\u2014and certainly the most dangerous. And its catalyst is the myth of ol\u2019 Joe from Scranton who has unleashed furies and hatreds never quite seen in modern American history. \u201cWoke\u201d Joe Biden At an [&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-3qz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11996,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-madcap-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-biden\/","url_meta":{"origin":13179,"position":0},"title":"The Madcap Adventures of \u2018Buckaroo Banzai\u2019 Biden","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Sometime-Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden was at it again, voicing his brand of tough-guy boasts that he can \u201cbeat Trump like a drum.\u201d A 1980s sci-fi cult film about a weirdo,\u00a0Buckaroo Banzai, who travels through time dimensions in many manifestations battling evil and saving good\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11662,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mythologies-of-joe-being-joe-biden\/","url_meta":{"origin":13179,"position":1},"title":"The Mythologies of \u2018Joe Being Joe\u2019 Biden","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. 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