{"id":177626,"date":"2019-07-30T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/30\/burying-the-lede-5\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T23:22:00","slug":"burying-the-lede-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/30\/burying-the-lede-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Lede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading Taibbi, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/iowa-2020-election-democrats-taibbi-858522\/\">his article on the craziness in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses<\/a>, he buries the lede.<\/p>\n<p>More than \u2154 down in the article is the money quote, &#8220;<i>Sanders is the revolutionary. His election would mean a complete overhaul of the Democratic Party, forcing everyone who ever worked for a Clinton to look toward the private sector.<\/i>&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This primary season is about how the Democratic Party consultant class, the leeches, is fighting for its power at the expense of both the party and the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading Taibbi, but in his article on the craziness in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, he buries the lede. More than \u2154 down in the article is the money quote, &#8220;Sanders is the revolutionary. His election would mean a complete overhaul of the Democratic Party, forcing everyone who ever worked for a &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":[615,464,642,405],"class_list":["post-177626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-good-writing","tag-iron-law-of-institutions","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177626"}],"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=177626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}