{"id":387278,"date":"2018-12-01T07:18:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T06:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/get-ready-for-the-storm-ahead\/"},"modified":"2018-12-01T07:18:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T06:18:15","slug":"get-ready-for-the-storm-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/get-ready-for-the-storm-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for the Storm Ahead \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107557\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107557\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/30639266695_3025d90dba_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/30639266695_3025d90dba_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/30639266695_3025d90dba_z-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Billie Grace Ward | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The feeling is palpable: with the Christmas recess coming to Capitol Hill, and then with Democrats about to take over the House, a whole lot of shit is about to hit the proverbial fan.<\/p>\n<p>So far, this is only a feeling. It is anybody\u2019s guess in what form (or forms) it will come, and exactly when to start ducking.<\/p>\n<p>However, the circumstances surrounding the impending shit storm are clear enough, at least in broad outline, despite the miasma Trump and his minions exude.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the Republican Party, especially but not only at the national level, has become the Party of Trump. The party Ronald Reagan fashioned is done for, finished, <em>kaput<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that Reaganites have gone extinct like, say, Eisenhower or Rockefeller Republicans. If anything, they are thriving like never before.\u00a0 But the Grand Old Party is Trump\u2019s, not theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Before Trump, practically anything that diminished the power of the Reaganite old guard was welcome news.\u00a0No longer.\u00a0 The Trump Party is many times more odious than what it replaced.<\/p>\n<p>It is stupider, more corrupt, more retrograde, and more lacking in fundamental human decency.\u00a0Witness the family separations and the tear-gassing of asylum seekers and their children along the Mexican border.\u00a0Being even worse than, the GOP in the Tea Party -Mitt Romney days is no mean achievement, but there it is.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-Trump and post-Trump GOPs are fruit of the same poison tree \u2013 the Southern Strategy, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/30\/trumpland-get-ready-for-the-storm-ahead\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Billie Grace Ward | CC BY 2.0 The feeling is palpable: with the Christmas recess coming to Capitol Hill, and then with Democrats about to take over the House, a whole lot of shit is about to hit the proverbial fan. So far, this is only a feeling. It is anybody\u2019s guess in [&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-387278","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\/387278","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=387278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}