{"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":9491,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"Megan Ring","date":"October 10, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment on: Is Trump Admiral Bull Halsey of Captain Queeg? 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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":11643,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-04-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":2},"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? They were so eager to attack white children that they didn't even bother watching the video before condemning them. This is why we hate\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":9517,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-9\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":3},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment from a Reader: \"But even before the latest revelations from an eleven-year-old Access Hollywood tape, in which Trump crudely talked about women\u201d TRUMP DID NOT TALK CRUDELY ABOUT WOMEN ON THIS TAPE- HE TALKED ABOUT HIS RIGHT AS A CELEBRITY TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT WOMEN!!! YOUR CONFLATING THE TWO IS\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":4},"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":10197,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":9889,"position":5},"title":"Angry Reader","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: Mr. Hanson, Normally, I would find a credentialed resume such as yours quite impressive and interesting, however, the deluded and incredulous nonsense I witnessed you spouting on FOX News with Tucker Carlson, that Russian involvement with the Trump campaign exists only as a 'trumped up' Dem\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9890,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions\/9890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}