{"id":7012,"date":"2017-11-08T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2017-11-08T07:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T12:56:57","slug":"delusional-tweet-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7012","title":{"rendered":"Delusional tweet of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don\u2019t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/928074747316928513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>No.  Trump passed the high-water mark on election day last year, and the tide will continue to go out.  Americans see with increasing clarity the authoritarian proto-fascist beneath the smarmy television personality, they see the hypocrisy and malice of the Evangelical Right whose support was indispensable to Trump&#8217;s win last year, they see the whorish cowardliness of the Republican Party that turns a blind-eye to his plain corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Though Northam&#8217;s victory in Virginia exceeded Clinton&#8217;s victory in Virginia last year, 9-points doesn&#8217;t constitute a landslide and I wouldn&#8217;t &#8212; <i>solo scriptura<\/i>, so to speak &#8212; call it a rebuke.  But yesterday&#8217;s <i>trend<\/i> clearly favored Democrats, and that <i>is<\/i> a decisive rebuke of a president only 10-months into his term.  The Deplorable One-third can still make noise &#8212; but they aren&#8217;t going to carry many more Republicans across the finish-line.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans facing re-election are making their calculations, and it must be plain by now to even the most dimwitted that it&#8217;s foolish to hitch themselves to Trump; I expect a steadily-growing catalog of outright defections from, and refusals to indulge, that sick pastiche of disaffected nutjobs now known as the alt-right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for. Don\u2019t forget, Republicans won 4 out of 4 House seats, and with the economy doing record numbers, we will continue to win, even bigger than before! &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7012\">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\/7012"}],"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=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}