{"id":12864,"date":"2020-10-30T06:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T05:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2020-10-30T06:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T05:19:58","slug":"relations-tarnish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=12864","title":{"rendered":"Relations, tarnish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/oct\/29\/john-kerry-people-want-a-future-the-orange-menace-is-not-providing-that\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[John] Kerry has watched this transition take place in the US since the mid-1990s, from Newt Gingrich to the Tea Party to the Freedom Caucus. \u201cAnd now you just have Trumpism, which has no relationship to any of the stuff preceding except the anger. It taps into the anger.\u201d The upcoming election is a chance to \u201cbreak the fever\u201d, he feels. \u201cPeople want to get on with their lives. People want to solve real problems. People want to see a future, and they\u2019ve learned that the flim-flam, con-artist, orange menace is not providing that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that November the third is going to produce a resounding rejection of what has been going on, and a quick resurgence, even a release of energy of creativity, that\u2019s going to be quite remarkable. And this is where the narrative is so important. People are now feeling the paucity of what has happened, the diminishment of the American Dream. It\u2019s not gone, there are a lot of dreamers still, but it has been tarnished.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This statement encapsulates well the psychosis I continually see in US media: Trump has no relationship to the American politics of the preceding decades. <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">November 3<\/span> will produce a resurgence that will be remarkable. The <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">American Dream<\/span> is not gone, just tarnished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: [John] Kerry has watched this transition take place in the US since the mid-1990s, from Newt Gingrich to the Tea Party to the Freedom Caucus. \u201cAnd now you just have Trumpism, which has no relationship to any of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=12864\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}