{"id":10718,"date":"2019-08-06T11:02:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2019-08-06T11:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:02:17","slug":"quote-for-the-day-190","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10718","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>With the arguable exception of George H.W. Bush, every Republican president since 1980 has pushed through tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the 1 percent while trying to defund and\/or privatize key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>This agenda is, however, unpopular. Most voters believe that the rich should pay more, not less, in taxes, and want spending on social programs to rise, not fall.<\/p>\n<p><SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">So how do Republicans win elections? By appealing to racial animus.<\/span> This is such an obvious fact of American political life that you have to be willfully blind not to see it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/05\/opinion\/republicans-white-terrorism.html?action=click&#038;module=Opinion&#038;pgtype=Homepage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Krugman<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the arguable exception of George H.W. Bush, every Republican president since 1980 has pushed through tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the 1 percent while trying to defund and\/or privatize key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=10718\">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\/10718"}],"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=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}