{"id":384,"date":"2016-02-29T22:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/?p=384"},"modified":"2016-02-29T22:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:04:12","slug":"dem-bones-dem-dry-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/dem-bones-dem-dry-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem bones, dem dry bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think what [Trump]\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do to the Republican Party is really make us question who we are and what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see happen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: right;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Nikki Haley<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s hard to\u00c2\u00a0think of a better summary of the ossification of the GOP&#8217;s intellectual foundations than this observation by the South Carolina governor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The GOP has become the party of naked power. That&#8217;s the only way to make sense of the so-called policies they propose &#8212; destruction of the safety net, of the environment, the ludicrous denial\u00c2\u00a0of climate change, and the even more ludicrous defense of the proliferation of handguns and assault weapons\u00c2\u00a0in the hands of the untrained masses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Of course they don&#8217;t want to engage in a little honest self-examination: They are intellectually \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and to a large extent morally \u00e2\u20ac\u201c bankrupt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Who wants to see that in themselves?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think what [Trump]\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do to the Republican Party is really make us question who we are and what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re about. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see happen.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Nikki Haley It&#8217;s hard to\u00c2\u00a0think of a better summary of the ossification of the GOP&#8217;s intellectual foundations than this observation by the South Carolina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}