{"id":348007,"date":"2018-02-13T02:53:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/raining-on-the-parade\/"},"modified":"2018-02-13T02:53:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:53:05","slug":"raining-on-the-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/raining-on-the-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"Raining on the Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade. I\u2019d be surprised if he didn\u2019t. It\u2019s just what an insecure narcissist would want. A parade would be the national equivalent of his strutting around like a peacock, dying to turn heads. Even a politician can see that: \u201cI think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud,\u201d Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy said.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cAmerica is the most powerful country in all of human history; you don\u2019t need to show it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

But harbor no doubts: Trump\u2019s parade will be the biggest, best, and most-watched military parade in history \u2014 guaranteed. And I don\u2019t mean just American history.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget that Trump declared himself the most \u201cmilitaristic\u201d candidate in the large Republican primary field. That was no small boast, considering that field included Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. Trump couldn\u2019t express his awe of the military, the marvelously murderous weaponry, and the valiant veterans often or heartily enough. Nothing animated him more.<\/p>\n

Trump may have teased the voters with intimations of military retrenchment and nonintervention (like his two predecessors<\/a>), but some of us knew he was not to be taken seriously. It was a pose, pure and simple. His opponents were parroting the establishment war-party line (with the occasional exception from Rand Paul), so Trump had to break from the pack. Every president had been an idiot, he said, getting us into all those stupid wars (each of which he…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course Donald Trump wants a military parade. I\u2019d be surprised if he didn\u2019t. It\u2019s just what an insecure narcissist would want. A parade would be the national equivalent of his strutting around like a peacock, dying to turn heads. Even a politician can see that: \u201cI think confidence is silent and insecurity is loud,\u201d […]<\/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-348007","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\/348007","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=348007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}