{"id":13463,"date":"2021-12-14T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:42:28","slug":"quote-for-the-day-268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13463","title":{"rendered":"Quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Not for the first time, we are reminded that <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">American democracy was saved by Team Trump\u2019s buffoonery<\/span>. They had the will, and possibly the means, to overthrow the 2020 election, but <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the would-be coup was attempted by clowns<\/span>: Sidney \u201cKraken\u201d Powell, the MyPillow guy, Rudy Giuliani of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, and now one Jovan Hutton Pulitzer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/12\/13\/mark-meadows-powerpoint-coup-plot-trump-crackpot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana Milbank<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes &#8212; the only thing that saved the country was Team Trump\u2019s buffoonery.  It&#8217;s true that We, the People, voted Trump out, but the events of January 6<sup>th<\/sup> made crystal-clear that&#8217;s not enough &#8212; we have to be prepared to use force to defend and enforce our will; we cannot assume honorable conduct by the loser.<\/p>\n<p>That is especially the case now that Trump&#8217;s cheap demagoguery came so close to succeeding; we will see it again.  I think it is most likely to come from the Right, rather than the Left, but that hardly matters; we will see it again.  And we need to think carefully, <i>now<\/i>, about what we are going to do when that happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not for the first time, we are reminded that American democracy was saved by Team Trump\u2019s buffoonery. They had the will, and possibly the means, to overthrow the 2020 election, but the would-be coup was attempted by clowns: Sidney \u201cKraken\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13463\">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\/13463"}],"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=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13467,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions\/13467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}