{"id":350610,"date":"2018-03-03T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T10:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-next-for-trump-war\/"},"modified":"2018-03-03T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T10:23:05","slug":"what-next-for-trump-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-next-for-trump-war\/","title":{"rendered":"What Next for Trump: War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_100205\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100205\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/03\/Screen-Shot-2018-03-01-at-4.08.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"333\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Gianpiero Addis | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>True to his reality TV persona, Donald Trump never ceases to amaze.\u00a0 Just when it seems that he couldn\u2019t be dumber or more vile, he outdoes himself.\u00a0 Arming classroom teachers is his latest gem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd you ain\u2019t seen\u2019 nothin\u2019 yet,\u201d as carnival barkers used to say.\u00a0 Mountebanks and carnival barkers \u2014 that is the cloth from which the Donald is cut.<\/p>\n<p>Even back in the days of television\u2019s Golden Age, when the high-minded deemed the fare offered the viewing public \u201ca vast wasteland\u201d and when reality television wasn\u2019t even a glint in the eyes of debased network executives, Trump was selling snake oil \u2013 not to rubes, that would come later, but to readers of tabloids and the <em>National Enquirer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mountebanks and carnival barkers repeat their pitches whenever they can; they stick with whatever works. \u00a0This is why when Trump is feeling vexed because the law is closing in on him, or when he cannot block out the contempt of the peoples of the world and of two-thirds of the American electorate, he holds later-day Clinton v. Trump campaign rallies in friendly venues \u2013 letting loose with timeworn \u201cMake American Great Again\u201d rants.\u00a0 As every sensate being on earth knows, he means: \u201cMake America White.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cruder and more ridiculous Trump is, the better his sales pitch goes.\u00a0 His diehard fans\u00a0 lap up every slur and vulgarity he throws their way.<\/p>\n<p>They are a shameless lot.\u00a0\u00a0 Nothing \u2014 not the rightwing media&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/02\/what-next-for-trump-war\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Gianpiero Addis | CC BY 2.0 True to his reality TV persona, Donald Trump never ceases to amaze.\u00a0 Just when it seems that he couldn\u2019t be dumber or more vile, he outdoes himself.\u00a0 Arming classroom teachers is his latest gem. \u201cAnd you ain\u2019t seen\u2019 nothin\u2019 yet,\u201d as carnival barkers used to say.\u00a0 Mountebanks [&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-350610","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\/350610","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=350610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}