{"id":13511,"date":"2021-06-07T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13511"},"modified":"2021-06-07T13:32:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:32:23","slug":"the-lethal-wages-of-trump-derangement-madness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-lethal-wages-of-trump-derangement-madness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lethal Wages of Trump Derangement Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Think about it: For about five years,&nbsp;<em>anything<\/em>&nbsp;candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited\u2014regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump policy, a Trump assessment, a Trump initiative were irrelevant\u2014given the primordial hatred of the Left of all things Trump: the president, the person, the family.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the reductionist malady of Trump Derangement Syndrome, facts and logic did not matter. Instead, anything&nbsp;<em>not&nbsp;<\/em>said or done in opposition to Trump empowered the supposed existential Trump threat. Ironically, some of the most deductive and reductionist Trump haters were supposedly professionals, the highly educated, and the self-proclaimed devotees of the Enlightenment. And yet in their uncontrolled aversion and detestation, they suspended all the rules of empiricism, logic, and rationality\u2014<em>and people died as a result<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/06\/06\/the-lethal-wages-of-trump-derangement-madness\/\">CONTINUE READING&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Think about it: For about five years,&nbsp;anything&nbsp;candidate, president-elect, and President Trump said or did, the media, the Left, and progressive popular culture opposed in Pavlovian fashion. Anything that Trump touched was ridiculed or discredited\u2014regardless of evidence, data, or cogency. The merits of a Trump policy, a Trump assessment, a [&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-3vV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11994,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-trump-wages-war-on-progressive-culture-dems-respond-with-trump-derangement-syndrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":13511,"position":0},"title":"Victor Davis Hanson: Trump wages war on progressive culture \u2013 Dems respond with Trump Derangement Syndrome","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News President\u00a0Trump is\u00a0waging\u00a0a nonstop, all-encompassing war against progressive culture, in magnitude analogous to what 19th-century Germans once called a \"Kulturkampf.\" As a result, not even former President George W. Bush has incurred the degree of hatred from the left that is now directed at Trump.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12869,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-wages-of-trump-hatred\/","url_meta":{"origin":13511,"position":1},"title":"The Wages of Trump Hatred","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 17, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/ American Greatness Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. It was more than a chronic disease and was often characterized by an array of rapidly advancing symptoms of deterioration in reasoning, emotional stability, and personal ethics.\u00a0 More practically,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10330,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/what-is-the-alternative-to-trump-derangement\/","url_meta":{"origin":13511,"position":2},"title":"What Is the Alternative to Trump Derangement?","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson National Review If they weren\u2019t trying to destroy the president, Democrats would have to focus on an agenda most Americans don\u2019t support. By 1968, voters had tired of the failed Great Society of Lyndon Johnson. Four year later, the 1972 Nixon reelection re-emphasized that a doubled-down\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bill Clinton&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Bill Clinton","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/bill-clinton\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12871,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-wages-of-trump-hatred-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":13511,"position":3},"title":"The Wages of Trump Hatred","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatnes Over the last five years, the pathology of Trump Derangement Syndrome has been widely described. 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