{"id":67138,"date":"2018-06-15T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67138"},"modified":"2018-06-14T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:44:38","slug":"square-pegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67138","title":{"rendered":"Square Pegs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been pondering how to address this for a while – what it’s liek to be an actual conservative in the Trump era.<\/p>\n

John Hawkins takes a run at it with the five werdest things about being a conservative Trump non-fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s one that some of my liberal friends have a hard time wrapping their brains around:<\/p>\n

I can understand Democrats writing off a conservative like me because even if Alex Jones is duking it out with Todd Akin one day, I still won\u2019t vote for whoever the latest socialist is that they run. That being said, there are roughly 8 million Americans who voted for Obama AND Trump and the general attitude Democrats have toward them seems to be, “Rot in Hell with your orange god.” No political party can appeal to everyone, but it\u2019s so strange to see a political party that treats millions of voters they are going to want support from in the next election like pariahs simply because they voted for the other side. This would be like an NBA team saying, \u201cIf you didn\u2019t show up to support us at yesterday\u2019s game, then we better never see you again! Oh, and if we catch you wearing our merch, we will MURDER YOU.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s part and parcel of the Democrats becoming an extremist cult<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been pondering how to address this for a while – what it’s liek to be an actual conservative in the Trump era. John Hawkins takes a run at it with the five werdest things about being a conservative Trump non-fan. Here’s one that some of my liberal friends have a hard time wrapping their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,16,367,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","category-trump","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67138","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=67138"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67156,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67138\/revisions\/67156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}