{"id":73203,"date":"2020-01-30T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73203"},"modified":"2020-01-30T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T14:58:35","slug":"why-trump-just-might-win-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73203","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Just Might Win Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this, I&#8217;m going to jump on the bandwagon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what &#8220;GOP&#8221; &#8220;Strategist&#8221; Rick Wilson and the <em>NYTimes <\/em>Wajahat Ali think of their opponents when they think they&#8217;re on friendly turf:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents.<br><br>If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I\u2019ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January as the perfect encapsulation for why it happened. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kQ6zN9AZV\">pic.twitter.com\/8kQ6zN9AZV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKrak\/status\/1221988232528826369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Don Lemon &#8220;apologized&#8221; by saying he &#8220;didn&#8217;t catch&#8221; all of what his guests were saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Of course <\/em>he didn&#8217;t.  He was too busy laughing at the smugging.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t care for Trump &#8211; but if the GOP had beaten Hillary with Scott Walker or Mitt Romney or a new genetic clone made from Ronald Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower&#8217;s DNA, they&#8217;d be saying the same exact thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know this because during the Reagan and Bush I and II administrations, they <em>said the same thing<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It just didn&#8217;t get preserved and distributed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of which &#8211; preserve and distribute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen this, I&#8217;m going to jump on the bandwagon. This is what &#8220;GOP&#8221; &#8220;Strategist&#8221; Rick Wilson and the NYTimes Wajahat Ali think of their opponents when they think they&#8217;re on friendly turf: Don Lemon &#8220;apologized&#8221; by saying he &#8220;didn&#8217;t catch&#8221; all of what his guests were saying. Of course he didn&#8217;t. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,130,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203","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=73203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73204,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73203\/revisions\/73204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}