{"id":14598,"date":"2015-03-31T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=14598"},"modified":"2015-03-31T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:48:53","slug":"the-troubles-with-historical-parallels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2015\/03\/31\/the-troubles-with-historical-parallels\/","title":{"rendered":"the troubles with historical parallels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letters to the editor page in the Nation magazine a few weeks ago, about the Nation&#8217;s hoped for study of Elizabeth Warren for President draft movement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One asks &#8220;What&#8217;s so bad about Hillary Clinton?&#8221;<br \/>\nOne points out that Elizabeth Warren has repeatedly said she&#8217;s not running, while Bernie Sanders is exploring the idea.<br \/>\nOne posits the idea that Bernie Sanders might serve as Eugen McCarthy, Elizabeth Warren as Robert Kennedy&#8230; with Hillary Clinton the role of Lyndon Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>That last one fascinates me in its day-dreaming of historical parallels.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully the letter writer doesn&#8217;t want to draw it too tightly to its 1968 precedent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letters to the editor page in the Nation magazine a few weeks ago, about the Nation&#8217;s hoped for study of Elizabeth Warren for President draft movement&#8230; One asks &#8220;What&#8217;s so bad about Hillary Clinton?&#8221; One points out that Elizabeth Warren has repeatedly said she&#8217;s not running, while Bernie Sanders is exploring the idea. One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14599,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions\/14599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}