{"id":5665,"date":"2016-10-19T19:46:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2016-10-19T22:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T02:50:10","slug":"gop-steals-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5665","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S THE GOP WHICH STEALS ELECTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2000 might as well be the Ice Age given the instant amnesia of the&#8221;mainstream&#8221; media, but Heather Digby Parton at Salon, on the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/10\/18\/its-the-republicans-who-rig-elections-donald-the-gop-history-of-voter-suppression-goes-way-back\/\">reminds us<\/a> of the GOP&#8217;s long history of election thievery and voter suppression&#8211;continuing right up the present.<\/p>\n<p>But of course the best deflection is a good offense! The GOP knows exactly how to harness the power of projection. What Trump is really doing is laying a pre-emptive defense that will serve to vanquish&#8211;at least in the court of public opinion&#8211;resistance to the voter suppression, intimidation and perhaps downright voting fraud he is undoubtedly planning. As the Supreme Court debacle also demonstrates, we are now dealing with a scofflaw political organization called the Republican Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000 might as well be the Ice Age given the instant amnesia of the&#8221;mainstream&#8221; media, but Heather Digby Parton at Salon, on the other hand, reminds us of the GOP&#8217;s long history of election thievery and voter suppression&#8211;continuing right up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=5665\">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-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","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=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5676,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}