{"id":72260,"date":"2019-09-27T06:52:48","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72260"},"modified":"2019-09-27T06:52:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T11:52:48","slug":"the-shelf-life-of-mayor-freys-idealism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72260","title":{"rendered":"The Shelf Life Of Mayor Frey&#8217;s Idealism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s about 23 months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Frey, 2017; <a href=\"https:\/\/tcjewfolk.com\/folk-mayorelect-jacob-frey\/\">tribalism bad<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There is often a deviation of strategy in getting there, and that\u2019s OK. We need to stop villainizing one another over slight differences of strategy and policy. You want to disagree? Go for it. That\u2019s great. But the villainizing and the personal attacks? They are counterproductive and will have no place in my administration. There has been a real push to divide and conquer. I\u2019m biased, but I think I\u2019ve been the brunt of it. The mayor has too. Everybody. It\u2019s got to stop. It\u2019s been really nasty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mayor Frey, 2019:   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/president-trump-to-return-to-minnesota-for-oct-10-campaign-rally-at-target-center\/561462052\/\">Get off my [er, collective] lawn<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Officials in Minneapolis were quick to blast the visit. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said while he would typically welcome a visit from a sitting president, Trump\u2019s \u201cactions have been reprehensible and his rhetoric has made it clear that he does not value the perspectives or rights of Minneapolis\u2019 diverse communities.\u201d<br>\u201cOur entire city will stand not behind the President, but behind the communities and people who continue to make our city \u2014 and this country \u2014 great,\u201d Frey said. \u201cWhile there is no legal mechanism to prevent the president from visiting, his message of hatred will never be welcome in Minneapolis.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;re willing to eschew &#8220;tribalism&#8221; &#8211; with the <em>right<\/em> people.  Not the opponents they actually have, of course.  The imaginary ones that Lori Sturdevant keeps reacing across the aisle to. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about 23 months. Mayor Frey, 2017; tribalism bad: There is often a deviation of strategy in getting there, and that\u2019s OK. We need to stop villainizing one another over slight differences of strategy and policy. You want to disagree? Go for it. That\u2019s great. But the villainizing and the personal attacks? They are counterproductive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,368],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-trump-derangement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260","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=72260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72261,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72260\/revisions\/72261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}