{"id":5523,"date":"2016-09-02T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5523"},"modified":"2016-09-03T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:03:29","slug":"hillary-undermining-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5523","title":{"rendered":"HILLARY IS UNDERMINING THE DEMOCRATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the great tradition of husband Bill&#8211;he who hard-wired Reagan&#8217;s revolution into the American circuitry&#8211;and lame-duck Barack.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Timm at The Guardian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2016\/sep\/01\/hillary-clinton-republican-voter-appeal-democratic-party\">asks<\/a> why she is pretending that Trump&#8217;s ideas do not represent a reiteration of GOP dogma , why she is going at such lengths to make a false distinction between Trump and GOP orthoodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is simply a more garish incarnation of Republicanism. He, is of course, a highly unstable personality, and that certainly does make him especially dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>It will be up to progressives to save Hilary&#8217;s presidency&#8211;if in spite of her best efforts, she does indeed get elected&#8211;from herself. We failed to do that with Obama, but perhaps we are now more energized and organized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the great tradition of husband Bill&#8211;he who hard-wired Reagan&#8217;s revolution into the American circuitry&#8211;and lame-duck Barack. Trevor Timm at The Guardian asks why she is pretending that Trump&#8217;s ideas do not represent a reiteration of GOP dogma , why &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5523\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5528,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5523\/revisions\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}