{"id":5084,"date":"2021-06-23T17:04:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2021-06-23T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:06:42","slug":"garland-disappoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=5084","title":{"rendered":"Garland Disappoints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Really, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/23\/merrick-garland-is-wrong-man-job\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/23\/merrick-garland-is-wrong-man-job\/\">this<\/a> is simply terrible. There are only two choices: uphold standards, or set precedents that the old standards do not apply anymore, and it appears Garland is choosing the latter option. This will only compound the Democrats&#8217; coming loss in 2022, as it creates yet another reason for left-leaning voters to be cynical and apathetic about electoral politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not much else to say but to repeat two bleak observations I have made before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When the historians of the future write about the USA&#8217;s transition to fascism, they will fault the Democrats almost as much (for failing to oppose it) as they do the Republicans (for pursuing it).<\/li><li>It\u2019s <em>almost<\/em> bad enough to make one seriously wonder if the Establishment \u201cleft\u201d isn\u2019t all just a deliberate charade to promote right-wing dominance.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really, this is simply terrible. There are only two choices: uphold standards, or set precedents that the old standards do not apply anymore, and it appears Garland is choosing the latter option. This will only compound the Democrats&#8217; coming loss in 2022, as it creates yet another reason for left-leaning voters to be cynical and [&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-5084","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\/5084","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=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}