{"id":4471,"date":"2018-06-22T04:52:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T04:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/platform-shrinkage\/"},"modified":"2018-06-22T04:52:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T04:52:39","slug":"platform-shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/platform-shrinkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The Democrat platform has shrunk to one plank: hate Trump and oppose him on everything, no matter what.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And the drunken Dems are walking that plank.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Never-Trumpers feared that Trump would destroy the Republican Party. But it is the Democrats he is destroying by driving them to adopt ever more extreme positions. <a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/columns\/all-politics-is-trump\/\">Matthew Continetti<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Trump&#39;s gravitational pull is such that he causes his opponents to overplay their hands. In effect, he trolls them into adopting positions so far out of the mainstream that they become self-discrediting. Take, for example, the crisis at the southern border. With the policy of family separation, Trump found himself on the wrong side of a 70\/30 issue. His administration spent a lot of time explaining, which in politics means you are losing an argument. But within days the president went on offense by signing an executive order and urging Congress and the courts to regularize asylum and detention law. The Democrats? They quickly found themselves arguing for releasing&#0160;<em>anyone<\/em>&#0160;who crosses the border illegally with a child\u2014not only a dumb idea, but also one that would incentivize future crossings and even child trafficking. It&#39;s&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/32129\/catch-and-release-winning-issue-democrats-poll-not-james-barrett\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">unpopular to boot<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat platform has shrunk to one plank: hate Trump and oppose him on everything, no matter what. And the drunken Dems are walking that plank.&#0160; Never-Trumpers feared that Trump would destroy the Republican Party. But it is the Democrats he is destroying by driving them to adopt ever more extreme positions. Matthew Continetti: Trump&#39;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/06\/22\/platform-shrinkage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Platform Shrinkage&#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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","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=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}