{"id":88504,"date":"2024-10-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88504"},"modified":"2024-10-14T07:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:16:31","slug":"the-new-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88504","title":{"rendered":"The New Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Grassroots&#8221;:\u00a0\u00a0 When a candidate who has never earned a primary vote, and only run one seriously contested election in her life, gets installed by the troika of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama after defenestrating the current President for being unfit to run a campaign (although apparently not to be President of the United States).\u00a0<\/p>\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\">How Harris&#39;s supporters built a campaign powered not from the top down, but from the grassroots up:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MbtaH9FLg4\">https:\/\/t.co\/MbtaH9FLg4<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The New Republic (@newrepublic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newrepublic\/status\/1845284948086751490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 13, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope this resolves any confusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Grassroots&#8221;:\u00a0\u00a0 When a candidate who has never earned a primary vote, and only run one seriously contested election in her life, gets installed by the troika of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama after defenestrating the current President for being unfit to run a campaign (although apparently not to be President of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,130,426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88504","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=88504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88505,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88504\/revisions\/88505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}