{"id":9570,"date":"2016-11-02T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2016-11-02T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:40:05","slug":"the-strange-silence-of-bernie-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-strange-silence-of-bernie-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Silence of Bernie Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Corner<\/div>\n<div>The one and only.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ <em>National Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The core of Bernie Sanders\u2019s maverick campaign was \u201cnot business as usual.\u201d For a year he offered a comprehensive critique both of status quo Democratic politics and the corrupt culture of elite Washington in uncompromising fashion.<\/p>\n<p>In an era of Never Trump publicity, daily harsh critiques from some conservatives of the Trump campaign, and various signed letters from Republican luminaries distancing themselves from Trump, where is the commensurate Sanders outrage over various email disclosures?<\/p>\n<p>One consistent theme from the DNC and Podesta troves is that the Sanders campaign was sabotaged by the Democratic National Committee, prompting the resignation of its chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (and perhaps soon her successor as well); that the Clinton campaign worked hand in glove with the Obama administration; that Sanders himself was sandbagged in perhaps more than one debate by Donna Brazile, who undermined the integrity of the forum by providing John Podesta and team Clinton with some of the debate questions in advance; and that the transcripts of Hillary Clinton\u2019s Wall Street six-figure compensated speeches confirm Sanders\u2019s indictment of Clinton\u2019s quid pro quo, wink-and-nod accommodation with big money, along with her admission that she has a public facade that should not be confused with her private (and real) sympathies. All of this is quite aside from the Clinton campaign\u2019s banal disparagement of everything Sanders, from leaking unflattering photographs of him to attacking his purported atheism, as they dismissed his followers as prolonged adolescents who never left their parents\u2019 basements.<\/p>\n<p>What transformed Sanders from a supposedly principled muckraker and uncompromising tiger into an obsequious and mostly silent mouse who shrugs that stuff just happens in politics?<\/p>\n<p>No answer needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Corner The one and only. by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/ National Review The core of Bernie Sanders\u2019s maverick campaign was \u201cnot business as usual.\u201d For a year he offered a comprehensive critique both of status quo Democratic politics and the corrupt culture of elite Washington in uncompromising fashion. In an era of Never Trump publicity, [&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":[1092,1091,1090,185],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2um","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9312,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/hillarys-sputtering-campaign\/","url_meta":{"origin":9570,"position":0},"title":"Hillary\u2019s Sputtering Campaign","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 25, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Facing a free-wheeling Trump, she is weighted down by tons of baggage. 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But the 2016 presidential campaign has spawned lots of weird races. The first sprint is one between embarrassments and scandals.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9627,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9627\/","url_meta":{"origin":9570,"position":2},"title":"From an Angry Reader: She\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"November 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: She WON the popular vote!!!!! Victor Davis Hanson's Reply: Dear Angry Reader Suzanne Williams, I got your point without the capital letters and the five exclamation marks. As a general rule the resort to exclamation is a reflection of an absence of argument. Let words speak\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Angry Reader&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Angry Reader","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/angry-reader\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9642,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/a-party-of-teeth-gnashers\/","url_meta":{"origin":9570,"position":3},"title":"A Party of Teeth-Gnashers","author":"Megan Ring","date":"November 29, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson\/\/National Review The broken record of racism\/sexism\/homophobia plays on and on and on. After the Democratic equality-of-opportunity agenda was largely realized (Social Security, Medicare, overtime, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, civil rights, etc.), the next-generation equality-of-result effort has largely failed. What is left of Democratic ideology\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12355,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/biden-has-become-an-albatross-for-the-democrats\/","url_meta":{"origin":9570,"position":4},"title":"Biden Has Become an Albatross for the Democrats","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 7, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Joe Biden\u00a0is the apparent Democratic presidential nominee. After all, he had a seemingly insurmountable lead in delegates going into the rescheduled August convention in the postponed Democratic primary race. 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