{"id":7718,"date":"2018-03-27T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7718"},"modified":"2018-03-27T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T18:39:01","slug":"krugman-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7718","title":{"rendered":"Krugman unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>And this sustained reliance on the big con has, over time, exerted a strong selection effect both on the party\u2019s leadership and on its base. G.O.P. politicians tend disproportionately to be con men (and in some cases, con women), because playing the party\u2019s political game requires both a willingness to and a talent for saying one thing while doing another. And <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the party\u2019s base consists disproportionately of the easily conned<\/span> \u2014 those who are <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">easily fooled by claims that Those People are the problem<\/span> and don\u2019t notice how much <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">the true Republican agenda hurts them<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/26\/opinion\/conservatism-honesty-crime-gop.html?action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&#038;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Krugman<\/a>, Nobel Laureate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And this sustained reliance on the big con has, over time, exerted a strong selection effect both on the party\u2019s leadership and on its base. G.O.P. politicians tend disproportionately to be con men (and in some cases, con women), because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7718\">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\/7718"}],"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=7718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7718\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}