{"id":177556,"date":"2019-08-19T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/19\/quote-of-the-day-17\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T23:45:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/19\/quote-of-the-day-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 105%; font-variant: small-caps;\">For all this, every time Trump seems headed for the dustbin of history, he bounces up again off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/iowa-2020-election-democrats-taibbi-858522\/\">messageless paralysis of his Democratic opposition<\/a>.  When Trump vanquished a giant primary field of Republicans in 2016,  Democrats cheered. When they lost the general election, they acted like  it was an unrelated surprise event, an outrage to decency itself. They remain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/myth-robert-mueller-exploded-taibbi-863282\/\">ineffective as anything but a punchline<\/a> to the Trump story. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/taibbi-trump-2020-be-very-afraid-872299\/\">Matt Taibbi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Democratic Party is the Washington Generals of&nbsp; \u2026\u2026\u2026 well \u2026\u2026\u2026 Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all this, every time Trump seems headed for the dustbin of history, he bounces up again off the messageless paralysis of his Democratic opposition. When Trump vanquished a giant primary field of Republicans in 2016, Democrats cheered. When they lost the general election, they acted like it was an unrelated surprise event, an outrage &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,374,406,403],"class_list":["post-177556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-politics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}