{"id":10781,"date":"2021-12-06T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2021-12-06T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:36:43","slug":"republicans-vs-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/06\/republicans-vs-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans vs Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Republicans largely feel like they&#8217;re an insurrectionary force fighting an unscrupulous liberal establishment. Democrats, by contrast, feel like they&#8217;re a fundamentally admirable establishment being pecked to death by an insurrection of reactionary zealots\u2014and they don&#8217;t know what to do about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8212; Kevin Drum, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/jabberwocking.com\/why-are-democrats-so-downbeat-these-days\/\">Why are Democrats so downbeat these days?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>I have no real point to make here, I just thought this was an interesting (and largely accurate) way of framing the current mood in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Republicans largely feel like they&#8217;re an insurrectionary force fighting an unscrupulous liberal establishment. Democrats, by contrast, feel like they&#8217;re a fundamentally admirable establishment being pecked to death by an insurrection of reactionary zealots\u2014and they don&#8217;t know what to do about it.&#8221; &#8212; Kevin Drum, &#8220;Why are Democrats so downbeat these days?&#8220; I have no real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}