{"id":15521,"date":"2016-06-02T17:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2016-06-02T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T00:25:50","slug":"momentary-fits-of-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/06\/02\/momentary-fits-of-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"momentary fits of confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a moment I had thought Dilbert creator Scott Adams had come out in favor of Donald Trump.\u00c2\u00a0 It squeaked past an editorial from, I believe it was National Review, calling Scott Adams a supporter while relaying that he predicted Trump thumping to victory in November.\u00c2\u00a0 This, momentarily, made yesterday’s edition of Dilbert pretty intriguing.<\/p>\n

\"dilbertvotingandtrumpishness\"\u00c2\u00a0 If Wally were a sympathetic character in this regard<\/a>, he would then make a good stand in for Scott Adams on this Trump thing.<\/p>\n

I had known that Scott Adams had predicted Donald Trump’s rise on his internet sites, at just about the time that I had gone from thinking it not going to happen to at least seeing the possibility, and a time a few others I saw who prognosticate on these made the “gulp” leap.\u00c2\u00a0 But I assumed it was not support for this prediction, but a prediction.<\/p>\n

Before I could go to the archives to look into it, I see in the news that… yeah, that’s what it was and is<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And I doubt it will come to pass as the prediction goes, but I can see it happen.\u00c2\u00a0 The one strange thing about this election… in most election cases a larger electorate will favor the Democrat — see 2008 and 2012 versus 2010 and 2014.\u00c2\u00a0 In the case that you have a celebrity “blunt talker” — well, see Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger.\u00c2\u00a0 The fear for Hillary Clinton supporters, tepid or enthusiastic, is that an apolitical mass is looming and will swarm in off a strange “cool”ness factor.<\/p>\n

As it were, Scott Adams — sure, haggle away in 1990s era polemics with art from Tom Tomorrow all you want to disparage a neo-liberalism bent, but … not for Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a moment I had thought Dilbert creator Scott Adams had come out in favor of Donald Trump.\u00c2\u00a0 It squeaked past an editorial from, I believe it was National Review, calling Scott Adams a supporter while relaying that he predicted Trump thumping to victory in November.\u00c2\u00a0 This, momentarily, made yesterday’s edition of Dilbert pretty intriguing. […]<\/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-15521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521","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=15521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15523,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15521\/revisions\/15523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}