{"id":12567,"date":"2020-08-20T13:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2020-08-20T13:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T17:11:07","slug":"tweet-of-the-day-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12567","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Opinion: The GOP is a refuge for bigots and wackos <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3OloWRArNy\">https:\/\/t.co\/3OloWRArNy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1296484351996317696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; refuge for bigots and wackos&#8221;  Ain&#8217;t <i>that<\/i> the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Try to imagine Dwight Eisenhower (Interstate Highway System), Richard Nixon (China opening), Ronald Reagan (&#8220;Tear down this wall!&#8221;), George H.W. Bush (Americans With Disabilities Act), or George W. Bush (compassionate conservatism) sitting down to lunch with The Donald (&#8220;Hoax!&#8221;}.  It couldn&#8217;t happen.  I can recall dinner with a much-younger friend (also raised in a conservative household) 10-years ago, and wondering if the reason that I was uncomfortable with the direction I saw the party going was that I was getting older; maybe I just wasn&#8217;t keeping up?  I decided that I hadn&#8217;t left the GOP, but that the GOP had left me &#8212; even as I wondered if vanity had the upper hand in that judgment.<\/p>\n<p>No.  I was right.  The GOP I grew-up with ceased to exist a long time ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: The GOP is a refuge for bigots and wackos https:\/\/t.co\/3OloWRArNy &mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 20, 2020 &#8220;&#8230; refuge for bigots and wackos&#8221; Ain&#8217;t that the truth. Try to imagine Dwight Eisenhower (Interstate Highway System), Richard Nixon (China &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12567\">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\/12567"}],"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=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12569,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions\/12569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}