{"id":4401,"date":"2018-07-24T04:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T04:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/the-greatest-hysteria-in-american-history\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T04:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T04:53:26","slug":"the-greatest-hysteria-in-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/the-greatest-hysteria-in-american-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Hysteria in American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2018\/07\/24\/the_greatest_hysteria_in_american_history_137612.html\">A voice of sanity<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You and I are living through the greatest mass hysteria in American history. For many Americans, the McCarthy era held that dubious distinction, but what is happening now is incomparably worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">If you vote Democrat this November, you are voting for hysteria, lies, socialism and even the cheapening of the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But more than anything, a vote for Democrats in November is a vote for hysteria &#8212; the greatest and darkest in American history.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">A great mass hysteria no doubt. But the greatest?&#0160; Jonah Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/woodrow-wilson-red-scare-true-hysteria\/\">demurs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Our Age of Rage is an Age of Superlatives. Writers and talkers need to check their exaggerations. Trump won&#39;t, of course; but I say let Trump be Trump as long as he keeps delivering.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2011\/09\/dennis-prager-and-exaggeration.html\">Dennis Prager and Exaggeration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A voice of sanity: You and I are living through the greatest mass hysteria in American history. For many Americans, the McCarthy era held that dubious distinction, but what is happening now is incomparably worse. [. . .] If you vote Democrat this November, you are voting for hysteria, lies, socialism and even the cheapening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/24\/the-greatest-hysteria-in-american-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Greatest Hysteria in American History&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","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=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}