{"id":66579,"date":"2018-04-17T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66579"},"modified":"2019-10-30T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T12:03:54","slug":"the-second-bull-run-of-the-second-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66579","title":{"rendered":"The Second Bull Run Of The Second American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>hired, and then fired, Kevin Williamson &#8211; perhaps America&#8217;s best political journalist, and one of the best interviewees I&#8217;ve ever had in a decade and a half of doing the NARN.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/kevin-williamson-controversy-talented-writer-editor\/\">has thoughts on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve observed for years that one of the greatest side-effects of Urban Progressive Privilege is a complete inability to &#8220;debate&#8221; anyone who&#8217;s not part of their club &#8211; because they have no concept of cognitive dissonance when it comes to politics or any area of life touched by politics (and politics touches\u00a0<em>every\u00a0<\/em>area of their life.<\/p>\n<p>Differ with an blind date&#8217;s politics?\u00a0 Ghost &#8217;em!<\/p>\n<p>Differ with a fellow student&#8217;s politics?\u00a0 Shame them!<\/p>\n<p>Disagree with a co-workers&#8217;s politics?\u00a0 Slander, ostracize and try to destroy them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic\u00a0hired, and then fired, Kevin Williamson &#8211; perhaps America&#8217;s best political journalist, and one of the best interviewees I&#8217;ve ever had in a decade and a half of doing the NARN. Andrew McCarthy has thoughts on the subject. My thoughts? I&#8217;ve observed for years that one of the greatest side-effects of Urban Progressive Privilege [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,79,349],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-66579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-pc","category-slander-files","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-kevin-williamson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579","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=66579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66580,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66579\/revisions\/66580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}