{"id":9764,"date":"2020-08-26T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=9764"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:36:47","slug":"links-and-comments-in-the-political-air-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2020\/08\/26\/links-and-comments-in-the-political-air-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Links and Comments: In the Political Air Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salon, Heather Digby Parton: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2020\/08\/26\/the-2020-rnc-isnt-a-political-convention--its-a-celebration-of-the-trump-cult\/\">The 2020 RNC isn&#8217;t a political convention \u2014 it&#8217;s a celebration of the Trump cult<\/a>. Subtitle: Fear-mongering and corruption are nothing new in Republican politics. But Donald Trump has gone far beyond that.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/25\/these-7-cultish-moments-trumps-convention-add-up-one-big-lie\/\">These 7 cultish moments at Trump\u2019s convention add up to one Big Lie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The seven are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump\u2019s awe-inspiring ability to rise above opponents.<\/li>\n<li>The need to let Trump into your hearts.<\/li>\n<li>Trump as the most empathetic person in America.<\/li>\n<li>Trump as the heroic defender of Western civilization.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest economy in the history of the universe.<\/li>\n<li>Trump\u2019s uniformly perfect handling of the virus.<\/li>\n<li>Trump as a glorious and benevolent savior.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Again: this is a cult, divorced from reality.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>CNN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/08\/24\/media\/fox-news-hoax-book-brian-stelter\/index.html\">At Fox News, &#8216;the inmates are running the asylum&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from a book. Opening lines of the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Everything I know about the Constitution, I learned from you on &#8216;Fox &amp; Friends,'&#8221; President Donald Trump once told Judge Andrew Napolitano.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, is this the best Republicans can do?<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Mother Jones: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2019\/07\/why-are-right-wing-conspiracies-so-obsessed-with-pedophilia\/\">Why Are Right-Wing Conspiracies so Obsessed With Pedophilia?<\/a>. Subtitle: The story is the same, from the day-care panics to QAnon: It\u2019s not really about the kids. It\u2019s about fears of a changing social order.<\/p>\n<p>These conspiracy theories go back centuries: the McMartin preschool scandal of the 1980s; &#8220;Wild claims of Jews killing Christian children and using their blood in rituals\u2014the \u201cblood libel\u201d\u2014date back to at least the 12th century and have popped up every so often since then, and long before that Christians were suspected of performing similar rites.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The continuities between the McMartin case and Pizzagate suggest a broader explanation for pedophile conspiracies: They aren\u2019t the residue of malfunctions in our media culture. They\u2019re an outgrowth of the normal workings of reactionary politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>The New Yorker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/the-stunning-predictability-of-steve-bannons-we-build-the-wall-scam\">The Stunning Predictability of Steve Bannon\u2019s \u201cWe Build the Wall\u201d Scam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon, Heather Digby Parton: The 2020 RNC isn&#8217;t a political convention \u2014 it&#8217;s a celebration of the Trump cult. Subtitle: Fear-mongering and corruption are nothing new in Republican politics. But Donald Trump has gone far beyond that. \\\\ Washington Post: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2020\/08\/26\/links-and-comments-in-the-political-air-tonight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9767,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9764\/revisions\/9767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}