{"id":75367,"date":"2020-09-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75367"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:35:03","slug":"if-he-didnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75367","title":{"rendered":"If He Didn&#8217;t Exist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the Minnesota GOP would have to invent Ryan Winkler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was him over the weekend on social media:<\/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\">If Republicans go forward with a Supreme Court power grab, we will see that our institutions need to change to actually reflect majority rule\u2014filibuster, electoral college, statehood for DC\/PR, gerrymandering all need to be on the table.<\/p>&mdash; Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler\/status\/1307696474092953601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So in other words, our House Majority Leader stands for the abolition of Federalism &#8211; one of the things our country got completely right.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, he&#8217;s not done yet:<\/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\">Release your pearls. Protecting minority rule is not the purpose of the Constitution.<\/p>&mdash; Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler\/status\/1307828524363984897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He went to Harvard, you know &#8211; but apparently never read the Federalist Papers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Constitution is <em>precisely <\/em>about denying unlimited power to the majority!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if Winkler, and the people he&#8217;s aping, <em>want <\/em>a civil war  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if they do, it&#8217;s hard for  me to figure what they&#8217;d do differently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the Minnesota GOP would have to invent Ryan Winkler. This was him over the weekend on social media: So in other words, our House Majority Leader stands for the abolition of Federalism &#8211; one of the things our country got completely right. Oh, he&#8217;s not done yet: He went to Harvard, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,320],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-75367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-mndfl","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75367","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=75367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75368,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75367\/revisions\/75368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}