{"id":253,"date":"2015-12-05T19:31:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2015-12-05T19:31:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T19:31:47","slug":"nyt-on-trumps-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"NYT on Trump&#8217;s rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/06\/us\/politics\/95000-words-many-of-them-ominous-from-donald-trumps-tongue.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, From Donald Trump\u2019s Tongue &#8211; The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I started out thinking that Mr Trump was funny, and pointed out by example how US presidential politics has become a spectator sport like the NFL or reality TV.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m realizing who he reminds me of: Benito Mussolini.\u00a0 I know what&#8217;s good for you, everyone&#8217;s an enemy, we can solve all our problems through force, &#8230; all with the non-threatening somewhat jokey bombast that&#8217;s associated with the Donald.\u00a0 Then I remembered reports of people in the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s who thought Mussolini was a joke, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>95,000 Words, Many of Them Ominous, From Donald Trump\u2019s Tongue &#8211; The New York Times. I started out thinking that Mr Trump was funny, and pointed out by example how US presidential politics has become a spectator sport like the NFL or reality TV. Now I&#8217;m realizing who he reminds me of: Benito Mussolini.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}