{"id":13873,"date":"2021-08-16T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2021-08-16T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T14:53:44","slug":"american-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/american-armageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"American Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time in their lives, all Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their families\u2019 safety and the American way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past. It is nonexistent. Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year\u2014with complete impunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is zero effort to stop them. Officials daily hector Americans to get vaccinated and tested for COVID. But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them infected with the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of Americans what he does not of illegal aliens?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/08\/11\/american-armageddon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Americans are growing angrier by the day in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or Tea Party furor of over a decade ago. The rage at the current status quo this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-3BL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11479,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/caravan-contradictions\/","url_meta":{"origin":13873,"position":0},"title":"Caravan Contradictions","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness A\u201ccaravan\u201d\u2014the euphemism for a current foot-army of more than 10,000 Central Americans\u2014of would-be border crossers has now passed into Mexico. 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