{"id":4090,"date":"2019-01-29T15:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2019-01-29T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T16:33:53","slug":"the-far-far-left-and-the-silent-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4090","title":{"rendered":"The far, far left and the silent majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jan\/29\/howard-schultz-denies-a-2020-run-as-independent-could-re-elect-trump\">Billionaire Howard Schultz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Democratic party is shifting far, far left. Those two extremes, far left, far right do not represent the silent majority of Americans.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/jan\/28\/trump-russia-investigation-mueller-whitaker-almost-over\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far,\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/dec\/28\/mueller-trump-russia-investigation-2019-what-will-happen-next\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the special counsel, Robert Mueller<\/a>, has charged 34 people, including several close to the president. But he has yet to accuse anyone close to the Trump campaign of conspiring with the Kremlin to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Trump win the election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4094 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spiro-agnew-life-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spiro-agnew-life-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spiro-agnew-life.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I remember Spiro Agnew&#8217;s May 1969\u00a0&#8222;America&#8217;s silent majority is bewildered by irrational protest&#8230;&#8220; speech. Classroom discussion in those days was informed in about equal parts by the Phila\u00addelphia Inquirer, the Evening Bulletin, Life, and Mad Magazine. In 1969 what America thought of as the far left had at the Democratic Convention in Chicago seen the veil lifted from a bankrupt political system, and called for a return to Chicago in the Days of Rage. In today&#8217;s America the far left calls for subsidized health care and college tuition. The silent majority seems to remain bewildered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Howard Schultz: \u201cThe Democratic party is shifting far, far left. Those two extremes, far left, far right do not represent the silent majority of Americans.\u201d Guardian: So far,\u00a0the special counsel, Robert Mueller, has charged 34 people, including several close &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4090\">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-4090","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\/4090","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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}