{"id":375271,"date":"2018-08-29T01:58:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T00:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-me-deplorable\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T01:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T00:58:21","slug":"what-me-deplorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/what-me-deplorable\/","title":{"rendered":"What? Me Deplorable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103854\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/2560px-Los_Angeles_Womens_March_24935216137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by nguyengurl | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the Age of Trump, American politics has come to resemble a drearily formulaic, militantly lowbrow, cutthroat, reality TV show.\u00a0 As per the formula, each day\u2019s news all but invites us to imagine a contest in which the most deplorable wins \u2013 gets to stay on the island, as it were, or to avoid being fired.<\/p>\n<p>Trump would be a strong contender in his own right, though, if he were still only a sleazy, politically connected, wheeler-dealer flimflam man with bad taste, too much money, and a penchant for riding around in golf carts, nobody would pay him any mind.\u00a0There are plenty more where he came from, and most of them are more interesting than he is.<\/p>\n<p>But he is the president, and therefore cannot be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, so far from being ignored, corporate media can\u2019t find time to talk about anything else.\u00a0He came out on top in the electoral circus, and there is nothing to do now but deal with the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Blame that on one of the most undemocratic electoral systems ever to disgrace a so-called liberal democracy; blame it too on the feckless Democratic Party and on Hillary Clinton, its incompetent standard bearer.<\/p>\n<p>The jury is still out on whether, to get to where he now is, Trump also cheated &#8212; not just in any of the fair and square ways that are normal in American politics, but also by \u201ccolluding\u201d with Russian connivers dispatched by Vladimir Putin, America\u2019s demon du jour (for the past several years).<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding what has&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/08\/28\/what-me-deplorable\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by nguyengurl | CC BY 2.0 In the Age of Trump, American politics has come to resemble a drearily formulaic, militantly lowbrow, cutthroat, reality TV show.\u00a0 As per the formula, each day\u2019s news all but invites us to imagine a contest in which the most deplorable wins \u2013 gets to stay on the island, [&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-375271","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\/375271","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=375271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}