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| Victor Davis Hansen: The Left Can't Come to Grips with Loss of Power |
| 2018-07-06 |
| [National Review] There’s no better explanation for the current progressive meltdown. Key Trump administration officials have been confronted at restaurants. Representative Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) urged protesters to hound Trump officials at restaurants, gas stations, or department stores. Progressive pundits and the liberal media almost daily think up new ways of characterizing President Trump as a Nazi, fascist, tyrant, or buffoon. Celebrities openly fantasize about doing harm to Trump. What is behind the unprecedented furor? Just as Barack Obama was not a centrist, neither is Trump. Obama promised to fundamentally transform the United States. Trump pledged to do the same and more ‐ but in the exact opposite direction. The Trump agenda enrages the Left in much the same manner that Obamacare, the Obama tax hikes, Obama’s liberal Supreme Court picks, and the Iran nuclear deal goaded the Right. Yet the current progressive meltdown is about more than just political differences. The outrage is mostly about power ‐ or rather, the utter and unexpected loss of it. In 2009, Obama seemed to usher in a progressive revolution for a generation. Democrats controlled the House. They had a supermajority in the Senate. Obama had a chance to ensure a liberal majority on the Supreme Court for years. |
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