{"id":13364,"date":"2021-07-12T11:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13364"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:33:41","slug":"conservative-derangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13364","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Conservative&#8221; derangement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody with a properly functioning mind can any longer regard conservatives as anything but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/coronavirus\/article252712658.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a dangerous national enemy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">cheered against COVID-19 vaccinations<\/span>, drawing concern from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation\u2019s top infectious disease expert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s horrifying,\u201d Fauci told CNN in an interview Sunday. \u201cThey\u2019re cheering about someone saying that it\u2019s a good thing for people not to try and save their lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something has gone wildly wrong, wildly sick, on the Right.  They are no longer part of the decent, educated world &#8212; and they are <i>NOT conservatives<\/i> in any meaningful sense of the word; they&#8217;ve degenerated into sick nihilists.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party of Donald Trump is past salvation; we need a third party if health is ever to be restored to our public life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody with a properly functioning mind can any longer regard conservatives as anything but a dangerous national enemy. The crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas cheered against COVID-19 vaccinations, drawing concern from Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13364\">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\/13364"}],"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=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13372,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions\/13372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}