{"id":9603,"date":"2016-11-11T13:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:23:27","slug":"9603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9603\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The Angry Phone-caller<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cAre you Mr. Hanson? F**k you! F**k Trump!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear (anonymous) Angry Phone-caller,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did not get a chance to say a word in answer to either your question or exclamations.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m always amazed about the ingenuity of people who can find one\u2019s cell phone number\u2014from retailers to ad men to lost souls like yourself. But seriously, what is it about Donald Trump that drove you to such obscenity\u2014and to such cowardice, since under the guise of a phone call, you waited until I answered, only to shout obscenities and hang up?<\/p>\n

Really, I would have taken a minute or two to discuss your \u201cissues\u201d\u2014a venom that we see is acting out in riots and demonstrations (and in blue cities of blue states of all places, rather than out at Ground Zero of Trumpland on the Interstates of Appalachia or southern Ohio), and, more passively, on campuses like my own at Stanford, where adults are reduced to teary infants in need of grief counseling (did such a thing happen in 2008 or 2012 for traumatized conservatives in need of psychological mentoring to assuage their trauma?). Is passive-aggressive cowardice integral to anti-Trump outbursts\u2014ambush obscenity, breaking windows in Liberal Land but not Bismarck or Boise, pouting rather than proud defiance?<\/p>\n

In my defense, I don\u2019t think I have ever in some 63 years shouted (even anonymously and by distant phone) \u201cF**k you\u201d to someone, unless when provoked I was prepared to fight. In the Central Valley such epithets are synonymous with fisticuffs and so I never employed them unless I was ready for blows or worse. But how strange the Left is today: it habitually uses the F-word, but also in cowardly fashion seeks shelter in psycho-dramatic counseling. What is the message of the F-word, Jacksonian anger or a weepy retreat to the fetal position, a roaring lion or a teary mouse?<\/p>\n

As far as \u201cF**k Trump,\u201d I could only ascertain your gender by your voice (male), not your class, status, ethnicities, race, or religion, so I am not sure in our nation of victims what exactly Trump has done to you or your tribe.<\/p>\n

So far he has not said anything like \u201ctypical white person,\u201d or told his rallies \u201cto get in their faces\u201d or \u201cto bring a gun to a knife fight.\u201d Did he rouse his supporters against you, on orders \u201cto punish our enemies\u201d? Did he call Latinos \u201cneedy\u201d or make fun of the first names of African-Americans or relegate Catholics to little more than medieval nuts?<\/p>\n

Did he stereotype blacks as clean or normal speaking as a Joe Biden or Harry Reid? Did he refer to \u201cwhite Americans\u201d as did Hillary in 2008? Or perhaps you are furious because you think he likes Justice Ginsburg, who quipped once that the right of abortion was at least leading to the aborting of the right sort of babies (e.g., poor and inner city denizens).<\/p>\n

Trump has not talked of \u201cthem Jews\u201d in the manner of Obama\u2019s spiritual advisor Rev. Wright, or Hillary\u2019s often close political ally Al Sharpton who ranted once about \u201chomos.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what is your beef\u2014his economic plan will turn a prosperous Democratic managed inner city into a right-wing moonscape of joblessness? His health care plan will have such high deductibles, premiums, and copays that it will be virtual insurance that never much can be used? That fracking and horizontal drilling will drive gas prices too low? That \u201cthe wall\u201d will force lawbreakers here illegally back to their countries of origins without the perpetual right to continue hit and run driving?<\/p>\n

Such mystery when a caller shouts eight words only to hang up.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

VDH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Angry Phone-caller \u201cAre you Mr. Hanson? F**k you! F**k Trump!\u201d Dear (anonymous) Angry Phone-caller, I did not get a chance to say a word in answer to either your question or exclamations. But I\u2019m always amazed about the ingenuity of people who can find one\u2019s cell phone number\u2014from retailers to ad men to lost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s466Sb-9603","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9625,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9625\/","url_meta":{"origin":9603,"position":0},"title":"From an Angry Reader: To\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"November 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: To Victor Hanson: f**k all y'all motherf**king f**kers unlubed with a f**king broom handle, you elitist motherf**king uniparty pieces of sh*t. 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