{"id":177965,"date":"2019-04-16T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/16\/stochastic-terrorism-and-the-cowardice-of-the-democratic-leadership\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:09:00","slug":"stochastic-terrorism-and-the-cowardice-of-the-democratic-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/16\/stochastic-terrorism-and-the-cowardice-of-the-democratic-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Stochastic Terrorism and the Cowardice of the Democratic Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Make no mistake about it:  Donald Trump&#8217;s attacks on Ilhan Omar are an attempt to induce one of his more unbalanced supporters to kill her.<\/div>\n<p>This is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>This has been the modus operandus of the right wing since before they assassinated Alan Berg.<\/p>\n<p>What is also not a surprise is the complete cravenness of the Democratic establishment, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/liberals-frustration-with-pelosi-rises-over-her-response-to-omar-dispute\/2019\/04\/15\/fd75bf2a-5f9e-11e9-bfad-36a7eb36cb60_story.html\">Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s absolute refusal to offer a meaningful pushback against Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s refusing to even say Omar&#8217;s name, saying simply that his statements was, &#8220;Beneath the dignity of the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>The response to the rank and file has been exactly the opposite, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/4\/16\/18410602\/ilhan-omar-fundraising-trump\">Omar&#8217;s fundraising numbers have blown past Pelosi&#8217;s numbers<\/a>, without the benefit of the Speaker&#8217;s fat cat donors and bundlers.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, if the whole of the Democratic Party establishment were replaced with bobblehead dolls, not only would they be braver, they would be less self-destructive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no mistake about it: Donald Trump&#8217;s attacks on Ilhan Omar are an attempt to induce one of his more unbalanced supporters to kill her. This is not a surprise. This has been the modus operandus of the right wing since before they assassinated Alan Berg. What is also not a surprise is the complete &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":[447,585,573,387,374,605,373],"class_list":["post-177965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-cowardice","tag-donald-trump","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-stochastic-terrorism","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177965"}],"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=177965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}