{"id":9889,"date":"2017-02-22T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2017-02-22T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T16:50:08","slug":"9889-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9889-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/22\/17<\/p>\n<h3>From an Angry Reader:<\/h3>\n<p>VDH,<\/p>\n<p>Read your piece LA Times this a.m., then another in National Review.<br \/>\nBig, sweeping rhetorical claims and attendant slamming- mostly about progressives trajectory. Your type of policy wonk rap is common and toothless. Evidence specific? Not.<br \/>\nEasy to see why you&#8217;re just a fellow.<br \/>\nDeToqueville&#8230;read his work recently?<\/p>\n<p>CRD<\/p>\n<h3>Victor Davis Hanson\u2019s Reply:<\/p>\n<p>Dear Angry Reader CRD,<\/h3>\n<p>I would like to offer you a coherent reply but your Angry Reader rant is unfortunately childish.<\/p>\n<p>Please cite in detail \u201crhetorical claims\u201d and \u201cslamming,\u201d rather than just emoting. What is \u201cwonk rap\u201d? \u00a0You ask for something called \u201cevidence specific\u201d but supply none. What is \u201cnot.\u201d I don\u2019t know what \u201cjust a fellow\u201d means? I have read Alexis de Tocqueville\u2019s <em>Democracy in America<\/em> and <em>The Old Regime and the Revolution<\/em>; he is quite good on\u00a0the impracticality of the Left and the dangerous extremism posed by radical democracy and impractical ranters and zealots.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely, VDH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/22\/17 From an Angry Reader: VDH, Read your piece LA Times this a.m., then another in National Review. Big, sweeping rhetorical claims and attendant slamming- mostly about progressives trajectory. Your type of policy wonk rap is common and toothless. Evidence specific? Not. Easy to see why you&#8217;re just a fellow. DeToqueville&#8230;read his work recently? CRD [&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":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2zv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11643,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-04-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 02-04-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Are your fake-right fellows at NRO going to issue a grovelling apology to the CHILDREN they attacked at Covington Catholic High School? 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I suppose that was a reasonable expectation if the following propositions were true: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1. \"Bull\" Halsey was a draft dodger. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2. \"Bull\" Halsey was a cheat. \"Bull\"\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11925,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-7-30-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":2},"title":"Angry Reader 7-30-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Dont worry , no silly greetings for you. Ha ha ha , reading your opinion in Albuquerque Journal made me laugh out loud. Fortunately, I rarely read such Bull Shit. Such crap is beyond belief. Thanks for the Laugh , Darrell Little \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 Dear Angry Reader\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":11765,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-04-04-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader 04-04-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Sir: I thought you were supposed to be an intellectual. Hoover Institution and all that. Then you go off on an illegal immigrant killing an American. That's Rush Limbaugh turf. (the 2 semester and out fellow) I guess you're just another partisan propagandist after all. Sorry.\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":10736,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10736-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":4},"title":"11\/15\/2017 From an Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"November 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"11\/15\/2017 From an Angry Reader: Read your article in the NR. Bad research, poorly written, some facts and a lot of your very biased opinions. In short it is mostly drivel. I hope your other work has good foundation and is better researched. You should take the trouble to visit\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":10571,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/10571-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":5},"title":"09\/13\/17 From An Angry Reader:\u2026","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"09\/13\/17 From An Angry Reader: Angry Reader Rich Laughlin \u00a0 Mr. Hanson, please try using sentences with less words. Most recently, I read one of your articles that had a sentence with 44 words. Other sentences in the same article were almost as bad. Really. 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