{"id":90112,"date":"2026-01-21T06:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90112"},"modified":"2026-01-21T06:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:52:18","slug":"a-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90112","title":{"rendered":"A Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Conventional wisdom and a lot of history say that the party that doesn&#8217;t control the White House always get a boost during the mid-terms. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More conventional wisdom says that if the Democrats just avoid the mistakes of 2024 and dial back the crazy, they&#8217;ll do much better electorally. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what if the Democrats\u00a0<em>can&#8217;t\u00a0<\/em>dial back the crazy? \u00a0Or more to the point, what if something came along to make it impossible for them to tamp the crazy down?<\/p>\n<p>Like, say, ICE dismantling a &#8220;sanctuary city&#8221; with enough brazen force to\u00a0<em>compel\u00a0<\/em>the left to go full Portland, 24\/7?<\/p>\n<p>Is the ICE surge the ultimate psyop?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 dimensional chess, if true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,24,109,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-26","category-culture-war","category-sovereignty","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90112","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=90112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90112\/revisions\/90113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}