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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent\u2014in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some minorities understandably<\/a> harbored distrust of prior government vaccination programs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 40 million foreign residents in America are from countries where corrupt governments had long ago lost the trust of the population. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent\u2014in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news.  Some minorities understandably harbored distrust of prior government vaccination programs.  Nearly 40 million foreign residents in America are […]<\/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-3Bt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13097,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/donald-j-trump-joe-bidens-best-friend\/","url_meta":{"origin":13855,"position":0},"title":"Donald J. 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