{"id":10569,"date":"2019-07-16T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10569"},"modified":"2019-07-16T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T11:49:25","slug":"birds-of-a-feather-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10569","title":{"rendered":"Birds of a feather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it is just now that devout Trumpsters are beginning to realize that most of us believe their enthusiasm for The Donald says something about their own character, and they&#8217;re going to be held accountable for it.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Pres. Trump is a racist and if you don&#39;t think he is a racist then there is no such thing as a racist,&quot; says CNN contributor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WajahatAli?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WajahatAli<\/a>. &quot;&#8230;I think it&#39;s pretty clear after today&#39;s tweets&#8230; he&#39;s a white nationalist and I would say he&#39;s a demagogue.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/O9WOuO2EOR\">https:\/\/t.co\/O9WOuO2EOR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1rCg5McxD7\">pic.twitter.com\/1rCg5McxD7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0 (@AC360) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AC360\/status\/1150930810305941505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was well-known before the 2016 election that Trump is a philanderer, that he is a racist, that he is dishonest in business, that he has gone bankrupt six times, that he knows next to nothing of his own country&#8217;s history and ideals, that he channels Joseph Goebbels and routinely tells Big Lies, that he has nothing on offer but validation of a long train of inchoate resentments &#8212; and if somebody has no problem with those things, it goes to that person&#8217;s character.  Always, the truth about people is what they <i>do<\/i>, not what they say, because behavior is the manifestation of  character; those things don&#8217;t occupy separate partitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it is just now that devout Trumpsters are beginning to realize that most of us believe their enthusiasm for The Donald says something about their own character, and they&#8217;re going to be held accountable for it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10569\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10572,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10569\/revisions\/10572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}