{"id":970,"date":"2020-07-22T17:43:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T17:43:35","slug":"premature-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Premature optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Debbie Dingell is worried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Godfrey: <\/strong>What could Trump do to change things up and win your district in November?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dingell:<\/strong> I got yesterday, from somebody, something called a confession. [Editor\u2019s note: It was a viral, anonymous social-media post.] <em>I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person. But I was born white into a two-parent household, which now labels me as privileged, racist, and responsible for slavery. I\u2019m a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today\u2019s standards makes me a fascist because I plan a budget. But I now find out that I\u2019m not here because I earned it, but because I was advantaged \u2026 I think and I reason, and I doubt much of what the mainstream media tells me, which makes me a right-wing conspiracy nut. I\u2019m proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture. It makes me a xenophobe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s what I\u2019m worried about. This letter right here is what worries me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(from https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/07\/debbie-dingell-doesnt-believe-polls\/614428\/)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Dingell is worried. Godfrey: What could Trump do to change things up and win your district in November? Dingell: I got yesterday, from somebody, something called a confession. [Editor\u2019s note: It was a viral, anonymous social-media post.] I used to think I was pretty much just a regular person. But I was born white [&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\/970"}],"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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}