{"id":466,"date":"2024-10-31T05:33:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/ready-for-rage\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T05:33:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:33:44","slug":"ready-for-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/ready-for-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready for Rage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Should Trump win, do you think our political enemies will accept the result, acquiesce in a peaceful transfer of power, and resolve to work harder next time? Expect a post-election <a href=\"https:\/\/issuesinsights.com\/2024\/10\/30\/the-post-election-temper-tantrum\/\">temper tantrum<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Democrats have warned the country that Trump is a \u201cdanger to democracy,\u201d a fascist, another Hitler. But it\u2019s the Democrats who use the threat of violence to turn the election in their favor. \u201cIf Trump does win the election,&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/31321290\/donald-trump-wins-election-riots\/\">the left in America will certainly riot<\/a>,\u201d says author and political commentator Douglas Murray. \u201cThey will make sure cities they believe they dominate go up in flames again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">And they\u2019ve apparently been considering the insurgent option for months. Jonathan Tobin wrote in the Federalist in February that Democrats \u201cneed a backup plan if the courts won\u2019t do their bidding\u201d to keep Trump out of the White House if he wins by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/29\/democrats-are-already-planning-their-own-insurrection-if-trump-wins\/\">doing exactly what they labeled as \u2018insurrection<\/a>.&#39;\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">\u201cA Trump victory would almost certainly set off bloody riots in every American city,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Hell hath no fury like the Democrats who won\u2019t allow a peaceful transition of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Douglas Murray is a sensible and astute commentator. Be sure to click on the internal hyperlink.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. Should Trump win, do you think our political enemies will accept the result, acquiesce in a peaceful transfer of power, and resolve to work harder next time? Expect a post-election temper tantrum: Democrats have warned the country that Trump is a \u201cdanger to democracy,\u201d a fascist, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/ready-for-rage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ready for Rage?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,138,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ponerology","category-political-violence","category-war-and-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}