{"id":177961,"date":"2019-04-17T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/17\/sometimes-a-single-phrase-clarifies-everything\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T23:56:00","slug":"sometimes-a-single-phrase-clarifies-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/17\/sometimes-a-single-phrase-clarifies-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes a Single Phrase Clarifies Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <i>New York Times<\/i> has an article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/16\/us\/politics\/bernie-sanders-democratic-party.html\">how the wealthy donor class of the Democratic Party is colluding with the party leaders to take down Bernie Sanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t exactly secret, but this quote pretty much explains the whole scene in a remarkably vivid way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">From canap\u00e9-filled fund-raisers on the coasts to the cloakrooms of Washington, mainstream Democrats are increasingly worried that their effort to defeat President Trump in 2020 could be complicated by Mr. Sanders, in a political scenario all too reminiscent of how Mr. Trump himself seized the Republican nomination in 2016.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole&nbsp; &#8220;Ancien R\u00e9gime&#8221; vibe is vivid, and it is appaling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a New York Times has an article about how the wealthy donor class of the Democratic Party is colluding with the party leaders to take down Bernie Sanders. This isn&#8217;t exactly secret, but this quote pretty much explains the whole scene in a remarkably vivid way: From canap\u00e9-filled fund-raisers on the coasts to the &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":[615,581,368,464,405],"class_list":["post-177961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-conspiracy","tag-corruption","tag-good-writing","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177961"}],"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=177961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}