{"id":61659,"date":"2017-01-06T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61659"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T06:03:41","slug":"wonder-if-lori-sturdevant-caught-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61659","title":{"rendered":"Wonder If Lori Sturdevant Caught This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Sturdevant &#8211; like a lot of liberal scolds of a certain age &#8211; pines for the halcyon days when Minnesota Republicans and Democrats supposedly worked together &#8220;across the aisle&#8221;, arm in arm marching toward the great Progressive future.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how much of that fabled past was comity, and how much was Stockholm Syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Still, after nearly fifteen years of writing this blog, I&#8217;m keenly aware how hard it is to remain civil with the current entitled, Privileged, intolerant Left.<\/p>\n<p>Ian Tuttle, by way of reviewing the new Milo Yiannopolis book (or rather, the left&#8217;s hysterical reaction to it), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/443526\/milo-yiannopoulos-critics-feed-troll-attention\">answers Sturdevant and her ilk by way of tangent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But the intelligent, principled Right for which progressives are always waxing nostalgic (\u201cIf only today\u2019s conservatives were like\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0\u201d) is considerably less likely without a Left that can recognize the difference between debate and \u201cdanger,\u201d joking and \u201cviolence.\u201d Having spent years decrying reasonable right-wing positions as outrageous and unconscionable, progressives are now stunned to find that a chunk of the Right is cheering on an opportunist who glories in being outrageous and unconscionable. Does any of this sound familiar?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To them? \u00a0I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Sturdevant &#8211; like a lot of liberal scolds of a certain age &#8211; pines for the halcyon days when Minnesota Republicans and Democrats supposedly worked together &#8220;across the aisle&#8221;, arm in arm marching toward the great Progressive future. I&#8217;m not sure how much of that fabled past was comity, and how much was Stockholm [&hellip;]<\/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-61659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659","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=61659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61660,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61659\/revisions\/61660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}