{"id":24640,"date":"2018-03-23T15:34:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24640"},"modified":"2018-03-23T15:38:47","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T20:38:47","slug":"more-on-vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=24640","title":{"rendered":"More on vigilance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been heartened by the large response to my recent post on Vigilance. If we had a smarter adversary trying to undermine our Democracy than Donald Trump I would be closer to hysteria. The late night hosts are doing a far better job explaining his administration&#8217;s follies and machinations than I could. That gives me hope. One thing does not give me hope &#8211; the cowardice of Republican leaders who fostered much of the anger, paranoia and misinformation which have led us to this era of disunion despite our nation&#8217;s vast prosperity. For this reason I have no interest in any Republican candidate for public office who keeps his\/her lips zipped <em>or worse<\/em> hops on the Trump bandwagon.  Are you paying attention Pete Stauber?<\/p>\n<p>For those looking for more on this concern I highly recommend this intelligent summary of the Trump record from Andrew Sullivan. For nearly ten years I read Sullivan&#8217;s must-read blog. Now he rations his Internet thoughts and thus, unlike me, better manages his diminished proof reading needs.  <\/p>\n<p>Take a look: <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/03\/america-takes-the-next-step-toward-tyranny.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/03\/america-takes-the-next-step-toward-tyranny.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been heartened by the large response to my recent post on Vigilance. If we had a smarter adversary trying to undermine our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24644,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24640\/revisions\/24644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}