{"id":3354,"date":"2018-06-10T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T18:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2018-06-10T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T18:20:35","slug":"nixon-reagan-bush-the-younger-trump-a-continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=3354","title":{"rendered":"Nixon, Reagan, Bush the Younger, Trump: A Continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the standpoint of many Never Trump conservatives it&#8217;s politically incorrect to point this out, but there really is <em>not<\/em> an quantum gap between Trump and the Republican Party from the era of Nixon onwards.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a party built on lies and bigotry, from Nixon&#8217;s &#8220;Southern Strategy&#8221; to Reagan&#8217;s lies about welfare queens driving Cadillacs (no evidence of such a person existed), to Bush the Younger&#8217;s lies about Iraq and his acolytes&#8217; expressions of <a href=\"\/blog\/old\/2004\/11.html#26195217\">love for myth and contempt for truth<\/a>, and their <a href=\"\/blog\/old\/2004\/09.html#02221857\">dislike for the rule of law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is merely more crude and blatant (and thus, in a sense, more fundamentally honest) about his fascistic principles; that&#8217;s all. For more details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DfTgB6CVMAE5bTW.jpg:large\">this Twitter thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the standpoint of many Never Trump conservatives it&#8217;s politically incorrect to point this out, but there really is not an quantum gap between Trump and the Republican Party from the era of Nixon onwards. It&#8217;s been a party built on lies and bigotry, from Nixon&#8217;s &#8220;Southern Strategy&#8221; to Reagan&#8217;s lies about welfare queens driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}