{"id":3088,"date":"2005-02-10T05:18:42","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2005\/02\/the-permanent-minority\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T05:18:42","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T12:18:42","slug":"the-permanent-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/10\/the-permanent-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"The permanent minority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tVictor Davis Hanson wasn&#8217;t real impressed with Barbara Boxer&#8217;s showboating at the Condi Rice <a href=\"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/articles\/hanson020705.html\">confirmation hearing:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Democratic idealism that once alone gave the nation its needed social safety net, civil rights legislation, and environmental protection is becoming ossified and in danger of ensuring a permanent party of strident second-guessing and deductive furor at the loss of almost all political power. A majority of the state legislatures and governorships is lost. The Senate is lost. The House is lost. The Presidency is lost &#8211; the Supreme Court almost. Whether Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, or Alberto Gonzales, &#8220;minorities&#8221; no longer have any need of liberal gate-keepers &#8211; or of a particular patron like Barbara Boxer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only by policing its ranks of such despicable scum as Boxer does the party stand a chance of making a comeback.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson wasn&#8217;t real impressed with Barbara Boxer&#8217;s showboating at the Condi Rice confirmation hearing: Democratic idealism that once alone gave the nation its needed social safety net, civil rights legislation, and environmental protection is becoming ossified and in danger of ensuring a permanent party of strident second-guessing and deductive furor at the loss &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/10\/the-permanent-minority\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The permanent minority&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-NO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}