{"id":540,"date":"2024-09-27T05:08:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/just-over-the-transom-from-malcolm-pollack\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T05:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T05:08:27","slug":"just-over-the-transom-from-malcolm-pollack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/just-over-the-transom-from-malcolm-pollack\/","title":{"rendered":"Just over the Transom from Malcolm Pollack"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Hi Bill,<\/span><\/div>\n<div>&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">My neighbor didn&#39;t call me a Trumper to my face, but mentioned (back in April) to my wife that he had the impression that I was one. (I felt obliged to unpack the assertion in a&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/malcolmpollack.com\/2024\/04\/04\/on-trumper\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>.)<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The Cape has a lot of Dems, but most of the working people out here are what Zman calls &quot;dirt people&quot; (i.e., those who encounter actually existing reality in their work), and they are . . . well, Trumpers. They are also well-armed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">[. . .]<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The post to which Malcolm links, from April,&#0160; is up to his usual high standard and is one you ought to read.&#0160; I agree with it in its entirety. As the political temperature rises, its relevance does as well.&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Bill, &#0160; My neighbor didn&#39;t call me a Trumper to my face, but mentioned (back in April) to my wife that he had the impression that I was one. (I felt obliged to unpack the assertion in a&#0160;post.) &#0160; The Cape has a lot of Dems, but most of the working people out here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/just-over-the-transom-from-malcolm-pollack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just over the Transom from Malcolm Pollack&#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":[88,56,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail-bag","category-politics","category-schmitt-carl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}