If only there were some kind of easy-to-understand fable we could teach our children so they’d grow up to be TV meteorologists and reporters who understand the danger of false and exaggerated warnings.<\/p>\n
Yes, but …<\/p>\n
Some of us, from the beginning, warned that Trump would model himself after corrupt authoritarian rulers like Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10,16,8,2761],"tags":[2448,2320,3274,2581],"class_list":["post-26995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-brother","category-current-events","category-media","category-politics","category-yell-clouds","tag-fucktrump","tag-resist","tag-wannabeputin","tag-authoritarianism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26998,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26995\/revisions\/26998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"fullsizeoutput_29b1\"](\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5510\/30466522633_dabda58e54_q.jpg\")
<\/a>Some of us, from the beginning<\/a><\/strong>, warned that Trump would model himself after corrupt authoritarian rulers like Putin. By now his scorn for representative government (and rules in general<\/a><\/strong>) should be obvious to everyone. It’s neither hype nor exaggeration to say so, nor to compare the violence being committed in Trump’s name (and with his encouragement)<\/a><\/strong> to that of Hitler’s brownshirts. This shit is real and getting worse by the day. No one’s doing anything to rein him in, and if Trump plays racist resentment and fear into another term, “unsurvivable” might be literally correct, at least for American democracy. This time, friends, there really is<\/em> a wolf!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"