{"id":343784,"date":"2018-01-14T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lazy-liberals-and-the-trump-effect\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T15:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:27:11","slug":"lazy-liberals-and-the-trump-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/lazy-liberals-and-the-trump-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Liberals and \u201cthe Trump Effect\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_97244\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97244\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/11\/Screen-Shot-2017-11-02-at-5.28.50-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"349\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Taymaz Valley | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC by 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liberals and other Democrats are getting dumber by the day. I keep running into them and hearing the same story over and over: things are bad because Trump is the president.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it. It\u2019s all you have to know. It\u2019s the only thing that matters to these unstable dolts. It\u2019s all about Trump. It\u2019s Trump this, Trump that. All day long. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, and Trump some more.<\/p>\n<p>CNN and MSNBC et al. keep up the drumbeat.\u00a0 Trump tweeted this.\u00a0 Trump said that. Everything is trumped by Trump, Trump, Trump (with a strong overlay of Russia, Russia, Russia, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Now we have the Michael Wolff book \u2013 an orgy of revelations on the madness and dysfunction of the Insane Clown President.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no social and power structures that matter. There\u2019s no underlying class rule or longstanding capitalist ecocide, no dominant oppressive institutions, no ideologies that matter\u2026.no history that matters.<\/p>\n<p>Racism? It\u2019s cuz of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Sexism?\u00a0 Trump did it.<\/p>\n<p>Threat of nuclear holocaust?\u00a0 Blame Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Inequality and plutocracy?\u00a0 The handiwork of Boss Tweet, that bastard.<\/p>\n<p>Climate change?\u00a0 You know the answer: big stupid Trump. Damn him!<\/p>\n<p>Look, I dislike the Stable Genius as much as does anyone left of Paul Ryan.\u00a0 But this is crazy.\u00a0 It\u2019s every bit as dotard-like as the Donald his own mad self.\u00a0 Liberals have fallen prey to what one of my Canadian correspondents, Gabriel Alan, calls \u201cthe&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/01\/12\/lazy-liberals-and-the-trump-effect\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Taymaz Valley | CC by 2.0 Liberals and other Democrats are getting dumber by the day. I keep running into them and hearing the same story over and over: things are bad because Trump is the president. That\u2019s it. It\u2019s all you have to know. It\u2019s the only thing that matters to these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}