{"id":476,"date":"2018-02-15T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=476"},"modified":"2018-02-15T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T18:18:00","slug":"american-politics-has-never-been-normal-and-now-they-never-will-new-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"American politics has never been normal, and now they never will | New Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/146915\/american-politics-has-never-been-normal\">https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/146915\/american-politics-has-never-been-normal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A short history of politics in the US.  TL;DR: the US has been here before.  The civility of the period 1870-1970 is not where we are heading, we are going back to politics as war, and thinking that a Democratic majority in the Congress will return us to reasonableness is naive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/146915\/american-politics-has-never-been-normal A short history of politics in the US. TL;DR: the US has been here before. The civility of the period 1870-1970 is not where we are heading, we are going back to politics as war, and thinking that a Democratic majority in the Congress will return us to reasonableness is naive.<\/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\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}