{"id":84073,"date":"2022-12-14T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84073"},"modified":"2022-12-14T07:53:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:53:59","slug":"waiting-on-wilson-derangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84073","title":{"rendered":"Waiting On &#8220;Wilson Derangement&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I flipped on NPR last night to catch a (large) part of a Terry Gross interview with historian Adam Hochschild, on his new book about the grave threats to democracy during World War 1.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it was a dismal time indeed.  &#8220;Sedition&#8221;, defined broadly, threw thousands in jail.  The Department of Justice deputized people to enforce government speech codes and arrest people for suspicion of, basically, thought-crime; it was the first time in history that federal institutions had enough power and budget to get weaponized, and that is exactly what happened.  Jim Crow was, by the way, federalized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s the thing; while Hochschild calls the repression &#8220;Trump-y&#8221; at one point, and Gross makes a raft of her usual Kaelian innuendos, you can listen to the piece all the way through&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1142245162\/1142553570\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;in vain for a reference to the fact that Woodrow Wilson, the father of modern &#8220;progressivism&#8221;, and an enthusiastic <em>actual <\/em>white supremacist to boot, drove all of this from the ground up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He who controls the past, controls the future.  He who controls the present, controls the past&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flipped on NPR last night to catch a (large) part of a Terry Gross interview with historian Adam Hochschild, on his new book about the grave threats to democracy during World War 1. And it was a dismal time indeed. &#8220;Sedition&#8221;, defined broadly, threw thousands in jail. The Department of Justice deputized people to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,130,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-tc-media-bias","category-narrative-for-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84073","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=84073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84076,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84073\/revisions\/84076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}