{"id":193912,"date":"2008-11-07T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/07\/more-circular-firing-squad\/"},"modified":"2008-11-07T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:26:00","slug":"more-circular-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/07\/more-circular-firing-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"More Circular Firing Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NeandeRepublicans are now saying that their losses are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/07\/conservatives.election\/\">all the fault of the more moderate Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fascinating.  After 1972 and 1984, the Democrats saw electoral disasters as a message to hew to the center, and after 1964, 2006, and 2008, Republicans saw it as an excuse to drive the center from their party.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, they will simply go further right than they can push the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton_Window\">Overton window<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NeandeRepublicans are now saying that their losses are all the fault of the more moderate Republicans. It&#8217;s fascinating. After 1972 and 1984, the Democrats saw electoral disasters as a message to hew to the center, and after 1964, 2006, and 2008, Republicans saw it as an excuse to drive the center from their party. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,978,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193912"}],"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=193912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}