{"id":5371,"date":"2017-08-03T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/the-conservative-resistance-is-futile\/"},"modified":"2017-08-03T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T10:19:18","slug":"the-conservative-resistance-is-futile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/the-conservative-resistance-is-futile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative &#8216;Resistance&#8217; is Futile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Gelernter\" rel=\"noopener wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"David Gelernter\">David Gelernter<\/a> is tops. &#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-conservative-resistance-is-futile-1499296694\">Excerpt<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I\u2019d love for him [Trump] to be a more eloquent, elegant speaker. But if I had to choose between deeds and delivery, it wouldn\u2019t be hard. Many conservative intellectuals insist that Mr. Trump\u2019s wrong policies are what they dislike. So what if he has restarted the large pipeline projects, scrapped many statist regulations, appointed a fine cabinet and a first-rate Supreme Court justice, asked NATO countries to pay what they owe, re-established solid relations with Israel and Saudi Arabia, signaled an inclination to use troops in Afghanistan to win and not merely cover our retreat, led us out of the Paris climate accord, plans to increase military spending (granted, not enough), is trying to get rid of ObamaCare to the extent possible, proposed to lower taxes significantly and revamp immigration policy and enforcement? What has he done&#0160;<em>lately?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Gelernter is tops. &#0160;Excerpt: I\u2019d love for him [Trump] to be a more eloquent, elegant speaker. But if I had to choose between deeds and delivery, it wouldn\u2019t be hard. Many conservative intellectuals insist that Mr. Trump\u2019s wrong policies are what they dislike. So what if he has restarted the large pipeline projects, scrapped &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/08\/03\/the-conservative-resistance-is-futile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Conservative &#8216;Resistance&#8217; is Futile&#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-5371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371","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=5371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}