{"id":387748,"date":"2018-12-04T18:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-blue-wave-from-another-universe\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T18:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T17:54:07","slug":"a-blue-wave-from-another-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-blue-wave-from-another-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blue Wave From Another Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Evil days.<\/p>\n

The midterms were bearing down on us like a runaway train with Donald Trump in the driver\u2019s seat and the throttle wide open, the Presidential Special hell-bent for the bottom. \u201cGo Trump Go!\u201dtweeted <\/a>David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, as if the president needed anyone\u2019s encouragement. There had been no slacking after pipe bombs were sent to a number of his critics; nor after two black people were killed in Kentucky by a white man who, minutes before, had tried to enter a predominantly black church; nor after 11 worshippers in Pittsburgh were murdered at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue by a man who\u2019d expressed special loathing for HIAS, a Jewish refugee resettlement and advocacy organization. \u201cHIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people,\u201d Robert Bowers posted <\/a>on his Gab account hours before the massacre. \u201cI can\u2019t sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I\u2019m going in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, relentless Trump, went right on raging about \u201cinvasions,\u201d left-wing \u201cmobs,\u201d globalists, MS-13, and \u201ccaravan after caravan [of] illegal immigrants\u201d invited in by Democrats to murder Americans, vote illegally, and mooch off our health care system. \u201cHate speech leads to hate crimes,\u201d Rabbi Jeffrey Myers told the president in Pittsburgh several days after the murders. The FBI <\/a>had previously reported a large spike in hate crimes over the previous two years, and the Anti-Defamation League noted a 60% rise in anti-Semitic incidents <\/a>from 2016 to 2017. Then there was this, reported <\/a>in the New York Times on the day before the election: \u201cAdvisers to the president said his foes take his campaign rally language too literally; as outrageous as it might seem, it is more entertainment, intended to generate a crowd reaction.\u201d And Trump himself, when asked why he wasn\u2019t campaigning on the strong economy<\/a>, responded: \u201cSometimes it\u2019s not as exciting to talk about the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Evil days. The midterms were bearing down on us like a runaway train with Donald Trump in the driver\u2019s seat and the throttle wide open, the Presidential Special hell-bent for the bottom. \u201cGo Trump Go!\u201dtweeted David Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, as if the president needed anyone\u2019s encouragement. There had been […]<\/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-387748","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\/387748","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=387748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}