{"id":83694,"date":"2022-10-25T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83694"},"modified":"2022-10-25T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:19:28","slug":"twenty-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83694","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democrats like to bleat that Ronald Reagan couldn&#8217;t be elected in today&#8217;s GOP.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s rubbish &#8211; watch &#8220;A Time For Choosing&#8221; and ask what he&#8217;d have to change today &#8211; but I&#8217;d answer in response that Paul Wellstone would either have trouble getting endorsed in today&#8217;s DFL, or would have to displace hard to the left to stay viable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s exceptionally hard to believe that it was 20 years ago today Wellstone died:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">October 25, 2002: U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone is killed in a plane crash along with his wife, daughter and five others near Eveleth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MSgxKXGvR9\">pic.twitter.com\/MSgxKXGvR9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Behind the Star Tribune (@BTStarTribune) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BTStarTribune\/status\/1584918723340763139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The crash &#8211; which DFLers of my acquaintance spent years was a hit job carried out by an RNC sniper &#8211; handed the election to Norm Coleman.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coleman\/Wellstone race was, in fact, what put this blog on the map (checks notes) <strong>twenty freaking years ago<\/strong>:  covering the DFL&#8217;s bizarre, often antisemitic attacks on Coleman, and <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/35780\/\">another prominent Minnesotan&#8217;s clod-footed assault on Coleman, got me the Instalanches<\/a> that launched this blog from 5 hits a day into the 3-4 digit range.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats like to bleat that Ronald Reagan couldn&#8217;t be elected in today&#8217;s GOP. It&#8217;s rubbish &#8211; watch &#8220;A Time For Choosing&#8221; and ask what he&#8217;d have to change today &#8211; but I&#8217;d answer in response that Paul Wellstone would either have trouble getting endorsed in today&#8217;s DFL, or would have to displace hard to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-history-and-its-making","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83694","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=83694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83695,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83694\/revisions\/83695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}