{"id":85203,"date":"2023-05-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85203"},"modified":"2023-05-24T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:52:49","slug":"85203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85203","title":{"rendered":"If At First History Doesn&#8217;t Go Your Way?  Rewrite It Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good thing Rep. Phillips grew up with a silver foot in his mouth. If he&#8217;d had to succeed on his merits, he&#8217;d be living in a homeless camp by the Quarry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Example:<\/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\">They\u2019d all be Democrats today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q1THLP6IKD\">https:\/\/t.co\/q1THLP6IKD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deanbphillips\/status\/1660663271697817601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Show the world you know nothing about history by bellowing on social media you&#8217;re utterly ignorant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh,, no.  You got 1 out of 4.   Roosevelt &#8211; the president who set the stage for Wilson&#8217;s &#8220;progressive&#8221; orgy &#8211; probably qualifies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincoln didn&#8217;t promote slavery, so morally-consistent modern Democrats would not know what to do with him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jefferson would be a Libertarian; he&#8217;d hang out with Justin Amash and Rand Paul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington?  Someone who was given the chance at unfettered power, even declaring himself  king, and demurred in favor of a constitutional Republic?    Not a chance.  He&#8217;d be a proto-Reagan conservative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And JFK would get kicked out of today&#8217;s DFL.  HHH was all but kicked out of the DFL of the 1970s, for crying out loud.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CD3 &#8211; please do better.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good thing Rep. Phillips grew up with a silver foot in his mouth. If he&#8217;d had to succeed on his merits, he&#8217;d be living in a homeless camp by the Quarry. Example: Uh,, no. You got 1 out of 4. Roosevelt &#8211; the president who set the stage for Wilson&#8217;s &#8220;progressive&#8221; orgy &#8211; probably qualifies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203","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=85203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85205,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203\/revisions\/85205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}