{"id":4591,"date":"2020-03-05T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T21:03:49","slug":"took-them-long-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=4591","title":{"rendered":"Took Them Long Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a full week after it became crystal-clear it had emerged as a major topical issue, the Sanders campaign is <em>finally<\/em> starting to bring coronavirus into its messaging. It&#8217;s this kind of obliviousness to the obvious that&#8217;s turned me off from the campaign from the start.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I think it&#8217;s great that he&#8217;s getting an actual Left message (of sorts) out. It&#8217;s just that he&#8217;s not very good at campaigning, to the point that I strongly suspect he&#8217;d be a disaster in November.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I would have been <em>more<\/em> likely to support him had he been doing <em>worse<\/em> in the polls, because while Sanders is not really a viable general-election candidate, he is a viable consciousness-raising one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, a full week after it became crystal-clear it had emerged as a major topical issue, the Sanders campaign is finally starting to bring coronavirus into its messaging. It&#8217;s this kind of obliviousness to the obvious that&#8217;s turned me off from the campaign from the start. Mind you, I think it&#8217;s great that he&#8217;s getting [&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-4591","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\/4591","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=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}