{"id":33691,"date":"2022-07-09T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33691"},"modified":"2022-07-09T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T17:48:34","slug":"30-day-diary-the-confederacy-of-boot-lickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=33691","title":{"rendered":"30 day Diary &#8211; The confederacy of boot lickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"RXG2R2TNZMBSE\" \/><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52204305108_e951113df2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NPR&#8217;s political reporter Ron Elving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/07\/08\/1110151655\/latest-book-on-trumps-gop-casts-harsh-light-on-partys-shift-and-its-motives\">wrote a review<\/a> of Mark Leiboviche&#8217;s book &#8220;Thank you for your servitude&#8221; which no doubt mirrors my view of the Body Snatchers to stole the Party of Lincoln. I particularly appreciated these line:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If Leibovich can be occasionally brutal in his assessments, Trump brings out the worst: &#8220;Trump has a way of wearing you down,&#8221; the author observes. &#8220;He invades your habitat, like the opossum that gets into the attic, dies, stinks and attracts derivative nuisances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But while Trump remains an eminence throughout, the author&#8217;s true subject here is Trump&#8217;s stable of enablers and the transformation they have wrought on their party and themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"RXG2R2TNZMBSE\" \/><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" title=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" alt=\"Donate with PayPal button\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s political reporter Ron Elving wrote a review of Mark Leiboviche&#8217;s book &#8220;Thank you for your servitude&#8221; which no doubt mirrors my view of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pete-stauber-for-congress","category-welty-for-congress-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=33691"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33700,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33691\/revisions\/33700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}