{"id":74363,"date":"2020-06-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74363"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:14:59","slug":"these-are-our-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74363","title":{"rendered":"These Are Our &#8220;Elites&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NPR&#8217;s Mara Liasson, over the weekend, observing the anniversary of D-Day.  Or, more accurately, &#8220;observing&#8221; the anniversary of &#8220;D-Day&#8221;, really.  <\/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\">Biggest antifa rally in history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ypa46PvYx1\">https:\/\/t.co\/ypa46PvYx1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mara Liasson (@MaraLiasson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaraLiasson\/status\/1269390712291893248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When talking with progs about &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa &#8211; a group whose origins were as the Communist version of the Nazi &#8220;Brownshirts&#8221;, and nothing else &#8211; I&#8217;ve found &#8220;progs&#8221; (and &#8220;elite&#8221; media types like Liasson fall out into two camps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They judge the book by its cover and nothing more; &#8220;Antifa is <em>anti<\/em>-fascist!   That&#8217;s a good thing!&#8221;.    Comprehending this level of see\/hear\/speak-no-evil ignorance is like looking at a tornado for the first time;   you&#8217;ve heard about &#8217;em, you&#8217;re read about &#8217;em, but they&#8217;re incomprehensible when you see &#8217;em in person.  <\/li><li>They think the idea of Big Left having an army of thugs is a necessary evil &#8211; or a necessary good, depending on the relative level of depravity.  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to guess Liasson, cocooned in the DC area, is the former.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DFL bobbleheads who run the Twin Cities?   Much more mixed. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Mara Liasson, over the weekend, observing the anniversary of D-Day. Or, more accurately, &#8220;observing&#8221; the anniversary of &#8220;D-Day&#8221;, really. When talking with progs about &#8220;Anti&#8221;-Fa &#8211; a group whose origins were as the Communist version of the Nazi &#8220;Brownshirts&#8221;, and nothing else &#8211; I&#8217;ve found &#8220;progs&#8221; (and &#8220;elite&#8221; media types like Liasson fall out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,130,1],"tags":[382],"class_list":["post-74363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-tc-media-bias","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-fa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74363","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=74363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74363\/revisions\/74365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}