{"id":281,"date":"2025-03-01T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/zelenskyys-performance-in-the-oval-two-views\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T11:18:33","slug":"zelenskyys-performance-in-the-oval-two-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/zelenskyys-performance-in-the-oval-two-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy&#8217;s Performance in the Oval: Two Views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">We live in times of extreme social and political polarization. (We are so polarized that we are polarized over the nature, extent, and causes of polarization! But I will resist the temptation to meta-level digress.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Cathy Young, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/p\/trump-vance-zelensky-oval-office-shameful-appalling-spectacle\">A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Philip Wegmann, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2025\/02\/28\/living_in_a_bubble_how_zelensky_miscalculated_trump_152441.html\">How Zelensky Miscalculated Trump<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in times of extreme social and political polarization. (We are so polarized that we are polarized over the nature, extent, and causes of polarization! But I will resist the temptation to meta-level digress.) Cathy Young, A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle Philip Wegmann, How Zelensky Miscalculated Trump &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,46,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disagreement","category-foreign-policy","category-maga-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}