{"id":84167,"date":"2023-01-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84167"},"modified":"2023-01-03T08:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:24:53","slug":"but-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84167","title":{"rendered":"But Of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may perhaps be a sign of a shift in the perceptions of the GOP&#8217;s likely behavior in 2024 &#8211; but Big Media is already calling Ron DeSantis not only &#8220;Hitler&#8221;,<a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/562096\/\"> but even worse than Trump<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-1024x817.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84168\" width=\"375\" height=\"301\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I noted on the show a few weeks ago that Democrats referring to Republicans as &#8220;literally Hitler&#8221; goes back to Harry Truman; he was literally the first candidate who <em>could <\/em>refer to a Republlican (John Dewey, in this case).  I remember it picking up with Reagan &#8211; but <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/eddriscoll\/2014\/3\/16\/cronkite\/4\/\">it was already old hat by then<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the best response to this sort of thing is mockery and laughter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How best to do this?   That&#8217;s my project for this month.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may perhaps be a sign of a shift in the perceptions of the GOP&#8217;s likely behavior in 2024 &#8211; but Big Media is already calling Ron DeSantis not only &#8220;Hitler&#8221;, but even worse than Trump: I noted on the show a few weeks ago that Democrats referring to Republicans as &#8220;literally Hitler&#8221; goes back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167","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=84167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84171,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84167\/revisions\/84171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}