{"id":61001,"date":"2016-11-17T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61001"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:03:54","slug":"everything-old-is-new-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61001","title":{"rendered":"Everything Old Is New Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/442155\/donald-trump-executive-power-left-loves-constitutional-checks-balances-again\">the return of at least\u00a0<em>some\u00a0<\/em>old fashioned values<\/a> among Democrats after the election of Donald Trump who, let&#8217;s forget, had more in common with Bernie Sanders than any other candidate on the ballot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The pretensions of the imperial presidency are going to haunt Democrats for the immediate future, but they\u2019ll quickly rediscover their belief in limits on the executive. While they\u2019re rediscovering old virtues, they might take a moment to lament Senator Harry Reid\u2019s weakening of the filibuster, an ancient protection of minority interests in the less democratic house of our national legislature. They might also lament Senator Reid\u2019s attempt to gut the First Amendment in order to permit the federal government \u2014 which in January will be under the management of Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and \u2014 incredibly enough \u2014 President Donald Trump \u2014 to regulate political speech, deciding who can speak, about what and when, and on what terms. Perhaps they\u2019ll thank those wicked \u201cconservative\u201d justices on the Supreme Court for saving basic political-speech rights. If they are smart, they will rediscover federalism, too, and the peacemaking potential of a school of thought that says in a diverse nation of 320 million souls, there is no reason that life in rural Idaho must be lived in exactly the same way as it is in Brooklyn or Santa Monica. As Charles C. W. Cooke pointed out, the same people who until ten minutes ago denounced federalism \u2014 which they mischaracterize as the doctrine of \u201cstates\u2019 rights\u201d \u2014 as an instrument for the suppression of African Americans are now embracing secession, which, in the American context at least, has a little bit of its own racial baggage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Williamson on the return of at least\u00a0some\u00a0old fashioned values among Democrats after the election of Donald Trump who, let&#8217;s forget, had more in common with Bernie Sanders than any other candidate on the ballot: The pretensions of the imperial presidency are going to haunt Democrats for the immediate future, but they\u2019ll quickly rediscover their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-61001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61002,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61001\/revisions\/61002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}