{"id":6054,"date":"2023-08-01T23:05:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T06:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2023-08-02T06:14:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:14:11","slug":"at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6054","title":{"rendered":"At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It seems as if American democracy might finally be getting serious about trying to save itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The basic nature of the indictment is plain: that Trump incited the insurrection on January 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am not personally averse to insurrections, if they are against a corrupt Establishment that deserves an insurrection. <em>If<\/em> Democratic operatives had <em>really<\/em> tried to steal a legitimate victory from a Republican candidate (or, of course, the converse), then the sort of thing we saw on the 6th would be both:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Only to be expected, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Completely justified.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, the false claims on Trump&#8217;s part that he was cheated out of his victory had only one logical conclusion: the one we saw play out on the 6th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really, nothing could be more clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The question now is whether all the <a href=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6043\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"\/blog\/new\/?p=6043\">dilly-dallying<\/a> on the way to getting here makes this a case of closing the barn door after all the cows have already escaped. But as the old saying goes, better late than never.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as if American democracy might finally be getting serious about trying to save itself. The basic nature of the indictment is plain: that Trump incited the insurrection on January 6th. I am not personally averse to insurrections, if they are against a corrupt Establishment that deserves an insurrection. If Democratic operatives had really [&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-6054","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\/6054","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=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}