{"id":86623,"date":"2023-12-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86623"},"modified":"2023-12-10T08:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T14:32:18","slug":"the-company-you-keep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86623","title":{"rendered":"The Company You Keep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I&#8217;ve been noting for about eight years on this blog, I&#8217;m intensely ambivalent about Donald Triump. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His personality roils with traits I personally don&#8217;t care for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But something about all the prosperity, peace and border security is looking good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Oh, Merg, so you just want someone who&#8217;ll make the trains run on time, yuk yuk&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peace and security are legitimate jobs of a national government.  Prosperity is the opposite of the &#8220;Fascist&#8221; dynamic you&#8217;re yukking about.  And Trump at his wackiest didn&#8217;t approach the level of authoritarianism of any of Baraclk Obama&#8217;s three terms in office.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m on Team DeSantis [1],but if it came down to Biden, Harris or Newsom against Trump, I&#8217;d probably hold my nose and vote Trump.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>worst <\/em>thing about Trump is that he, like Obama before him, is the center of a personality cult.  And with Trump, soooooo many of the cultists are just so deeply dim:<\/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\">Last night during the 4th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GOPDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOPDebate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RonDeSantis<\/a> said with a straight face that he would take inspiration from Calvin Coolidge, the grand mastermind of the Great Depression.<br><br>Ron DeSantis is such an embarrassment. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Trump2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Trump2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9oJmd4TEef\">pic.twitter.com\/9oJmd4TEef<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/1732754091812483462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Loomer &#8211; charitably described as &#8220;insane&#8221; &#8211; cites a piece on by David Greenberg, a Rutgers historian who&#8217;s never been mistaken for someone who&#8217;d throw a life ring to a conservative who fell overboard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Clinton infamously threw some of his more extreme supporters under the bus in his long forgotten&#8221;Sista Soulja&#8221; moment (in the the long-forgotten Sista Soulja&#8221;).  Trump&#8217;s never gonna have a &#8220;Crazy Laura&#8221; moment.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If he did, I might have to hold my nose a little less hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] And yeah, I think in a just world Doug Burgum would be on the short list, but we don&#8217;t live in a just world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve been noting for about eight years on this blog, I&#8217;m intensely ambivalent about Donald Triump. His personality roils with traits I personally don&#8217;t care for. But something about all the prosperity, peace and border security is looking good. &#8220;Oh, Merg, so you just want someone who&#8217;ll make the trains run on time, yuk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,386,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-the-alt-right","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86623","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=86623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86623\/revisions\/86632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}