{"id":4558,"date":"2018-05-02T06:04:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/barbara-bush\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T06:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:04:29","slug":"barbara-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/barbara-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">She taught her boys to be gentlemen, but apparently not how to fight. Now civility is a wonderful conservative virtue, but it is for the civil only. It doesn&#39;t work with thugs. If we are not willing to be uncivil in our response to our enemies, we will not be able to preserve a space for civility.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In this age of post-consensus politics such gentlemen as Jeb! are viewed by true conservatives as appeasing jokers, &#39;cuckservatives&#39; in the harsh but telling lingo of certain alt-rightists.&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">To say it again: I am not alt-right; my disagreements with those boys go deep. But I am also not a knuckle-headed Never-Trumper who thinks the Alt-Right can be dismissed unread as if there is nothing genuine and important that motivates them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She taught her boys to be gentlemen, but apparently not how to fight. Now civility is a wonderful conservative virtue, but it is for the civil only. It doesn&#39;t work with thugs. If we are not willing to be uncivil in our response to our enemies, we will not be able to preserve a space &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/05\/02\/barbara-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbara Bush&#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-4558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558","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=4558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}