{"id":16065,"date":"2016-11-14T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16065"},"modified":"2016-11-14T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T02:28:10","slug":"in-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/11\/14\/in-and-out\/","title":{"rendered":"in and out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contemplating political positioning in the wake of the Trump victory…\u00c2\u00a0 Because.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Welcome to the new Republican Party<\/a>, old Republicans..<\/p>\n

I’m really curious about Marco Rubio.\u00c2\u00a0 His point in running for the Senate was to have a place to run for president in four years.<\/p>\n

Speculating that Tim Scott would run for South Carolina governor, aiming for the president<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 That assumes the path to the presidency is in traditional politics these days.<\/p>\n

Ben Sasse has this to say<\/a>.
\nWe are not North Koreans, swearing a loyalty oath to the ‘Dear Leader.’ Nor are we the French Resistance, plotting against the new regime from day one. Rather, we should hope for his personal flourishing and his wisdom, and we should simultaneously vigorously debate his ideas.
\n<\/em>Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Speak for yourself.<\/p>\n

Meantime, making their way into the establishment, and things get scary and wacky.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, there’s Steve Bannon<\/a> — who — will really take it to the “Establishment”<\/a> (who is — um?) … and into a new media universe with… the suddenly mainstream, Alex Jones<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Now in a position not before conceivable — one that will makes it a deal harder to consider the next terrorist or other tragic act of violence a “false flag”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contemplating political positioning in the wake of the Trump victory…\u00c2\u00a0 Because.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure.\u00c2\u00a0 Welcome to the new Republican Party, old Republicans.. I’m really curious about Marco Rubio.\u00c2\u00a0 His point in running for the Senate was to have a place to run for president in four years. Speculating that Tim Scott would run for South Carolina governor, […]<\/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-16065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065","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=16065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16066,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16065\/revisions\/16066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}