{"id":36242,"date":"2025-04-10T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36242"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:25:00","slug":"the-maga-swarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36242","title":{"rendered":"The Maga Swarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36231\">Last post<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36246\">Next post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wanted a different picture to head <a href=\"https:\/\/duluthreader.com\/articles\/2025\/04\/10\/131076-the-maga-swarm\">this column<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This was the appropriate photo:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54430966861_d9f27835d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first five paragraphs are about the pestilance remembered as the Spanish flu. The book I&#8217;ve been reading describes how it starts as a &#8220;Swarm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I apply it as a metaphor to what has become of Christianity in America in today&#8217;s Trump Idiotocracy. I write:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea of a swarm is the perfect metaphor for today\u2019s mutant strain of spiteful Christianity that has perverted Jesus\u2019s call to \u201cturn the other cheek\u201d into a call for a King Cyrus.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last post Next post I wanted a different picture to head this column. This was the appropriate photo: The first five paragraphs are about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36242"}],"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=36242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36248,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36242\/revisions\/36248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}