{"id":61801,"date":"2017-01-18T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61801"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:03:54","slug":"in-the-footsteps-of-stalin-the-shadow-hecklers-stagger-through-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61801","title":{"rendered":"In The Footsteps Of Stalin, The Shadow Hecklers Stagger Through The Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Obama supporters are planning to hold a &#8220;clap-a-thon&#8221; to, er, &#8220;honor&#8221; the outgoing President:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHis legacy is one of kindness and grace,\u201d according to Bejid\u00e9 Davis, a 29-year-old New York lawyer who organized the clap-out. That opinion is not universally held, to say the least \u2014 the consequential policy innovations of President Kindness and Grace include assassinating American citizens, a line that even Prince of Darkness Dick Cheney never crossed \u2014 but this is a question of affiliation, not a question of judgment. The people gathering to applaud for President Barack Obama as President Donald Trump waits in the wings are not really making a statement about the outgoing president. They are making a statement about themselves: \u201cThis is our tribe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And why does that matter?<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Williamson, on the politics of applause, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/443868\/obama-last-day-clap-out-applause-free-society-stalin-tom-price\">a piece with too many good parts to pick few enough pullquotes for this post to fall under &#8220;fair use&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Obama supporters are planning to hold a &#8220;clap-a-thon&#8221; to, er, &#8220;honor&#8221; the outgoing President: \u201cHis legacy is one of kindness and grace,\u201d according to Bejid\u00e9 Davis, a 29-year-old New York lawyer who organized the clap-out. That opinion is not universally held, to say the least \u2014 the consequential policy innovations of President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-61801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61801","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=61801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61802,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61801\/revisions\/61802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}