{"id":13493,"date":"2021-06-03T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2021-06-03T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:23:29","slug":"a-witch-hunt-trial-is-underway-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-witch-hunt-trial-is-underway-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u201cWitch Hunt Trial\u201d Is Underway in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Liberty Web<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has been more than three months since the Biden administration took office. What are your impressions of President Biden and his administration, and what kind of change do you see in the U.S. in the future? (You pointed out that Biden is proving to be the Biden he always was\u2014as incompetent as Jimmy Carter, without the latter\u2019s probity. He may prove as corrupt as Bill Clinton yet without his animal energy.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, his 2020 virtual candidacy that promised \u201cunity\u201d and \u201cmoderation\u201d was, to be honest, a ruse to capture the votes of the centrist of the Democratic Party. Biden sees his last hurrah as a chance to become the most leftwing president in history, and no longer the mere understudy of Barack Obama\u2014especially given the hard left absorption of the old Democratic Party that praises him to the skies and warns him of any apostasy from its redistributive socialism. No president in memory has been more secluded and protected. Favored media and a legion of woke activists have created a cordon sanitaire around Biden, albeit with ample input from Jill Biden and the Obamas. He simply is not physically up to meeting with real media and legislators without scripted prompts and rules of engagement, and he is not up enough on his newfound wokeist doctrine to defend things like court packing, reparations, or the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Irony That Immigration Policy Becomes Discrimination<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>President Biden has called for \u201cunity,\u201d but you wrote in your April 18 article \u201cThe Joe Biden Who Never Was\u201d in AMERICAN GREATNESS, \u201cIf unity is defined as achieving record-low minority unemployment, or enhancing the entry-level wages of working Americans by curtailing massive illegal immigration or raising middle-class incomes after years of stagnation, then Biden will not be a uniter.\u201d What do you think about the Biden administration\u2019s economic and immigration policies that could well divide the country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.the-liberty.com\/2021\/8320\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ The Liberty Web It has been more than three months since the Biden administration took office. What are your impressions of President Biden and his administration, and what kind of change do you see in the U.S. in the future? (You pointed out that Biden is proving to be the Biden [&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-3vD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11662,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mythologies-of-joe-being-joe-biden\/","url_meta":{"origin":13493,"position":0},"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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