{"id":12554,"date":"2020-08-18T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12554"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:23:41","slug":"authoritarian-headline-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12554","title":{"rendered":"Authoritarian headline of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/trump\/trump-floats-invalidating-election-over-mail-in-voting-theyll-have-to-do-it-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Floats Invalidating Election Over<br \/>Mail-In Voting, Says Election May Have<br \/>to Be Held Again<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For 3-years I&#8217;ve been telling anybody who would listen that Trump isn&#8217;t going to leave office gracefully if he loses the election in November, and it becomes clearer by the day that, indeed, he intends to stay win-or-lose.<\/p>\n<p>Only &#8212; <i>Only.<\/i> &#8212; an epochal, ruinous, annihilating defeat will put Trump out of office; less, and his enabling Republican whores can be counted upon to hem-and-haw and pussyfoot around and let him get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most important election of our lifetime&#8221; &#8230; it&#8217;s such a tedious clich\u00e9.  But this time it&#8217;s true.  The presidency is in the hands of an incompetent, unintelligent, thoroughly amoral authoritarian who is deeply hostile to American ideals &#8212; so far as he is even aware of them, I mean.  There is no more important business before the country than putting Trump out of office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Floats Invalidating Election Over Mail-In Voting, Says Election May Have to Be Held Again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12554\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554"}],"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=12554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12559,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12554\/revisions\/12559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}