{"id":363681,"date":"2018-06-01T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-are-from-hell-republicans-are-from-hells-lowest-circle-and-trump-is-from-somewhere-else-altogether\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:36:43","slug":"democrats-are-from-hell-republicans-are-from-hells-lowest-circle-and-trump-is-from-somewhere-else-altogether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democrats-are-from-hell-republicans-are-from-hells-lowest-circle-and-trump-is-from-somewhere-else-altogether\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats are From Hell; Republicans are From Hell\u2019s Lowest Circle, and Trump is From Somewhere Else Altogether"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_102589\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102589\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/06\/27421153211_e8194c5ed5_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"326\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mike Maguire | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>For nearly three decades, the right has been going after the Clintons \u2013 first mainly Bill, then mainly Hillary \u2013 for all the wrong reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The right reasons are the many ways that the Clintons and those who think like them\u00a0 \u2014 that would be most Democrats \u2014 are like Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are more decent, more socially liberal, more civil (right-wingers would say \u201cpolitically correct\u201d), and less wedded to retrograde causes and notions.\u00a0 This can and often does matter around the margins.<\/p>\n<p>But the respects in which Democrats are better are of little or no consequence for the fundamental economic and political problems faced by Americans, and peoples around the world who live under the sway of the American hegemon. \u00a0On those problems, Democrats and Republicans are as alike as peas in a pod.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party is a party of the center right and the far right, but contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Democratic Party is not a party of the left or even the center left.<\/p>\n<p>There is no politically significant left in the United States today; there are only remnants and individuals, vast numbers of them, yearning for left alternatives.\u00a0 What is called a left is actually, to use Tariq Ali\u2019s apt expression, an \u201cextreme center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The extreme center is now going after Donald Trump with fervor equal to or greater than that of the right and far right towards the Clintons and likeminded Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the reasons driving that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/06\/01\/democrats-are-from-hell-republicans-are-from-hells-lowest-circle-and-trump-is-from-somewhere-else-altogether\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Mike Maguire | CC BY 2.0 For nearly three decades, the right has been going after the Clintons \u2013 first mainly Bill, then mainly Hillary \u2013 for all the wrong reasons. The right reasons are the many ways that the Clintons and those who think like them\u00a0 \u2014 that would be most Democrats [&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-363681","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\/363681","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=363681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}