{"id":13027,"date":"2016-02-19T02:07:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2016-02-19T02:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T02:07:09","slug":"weirdness-overtakes-reason-on-campaign-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13027","title":{"rendered":"Weirdness overtakes reason on campaign trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sophiepope.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13030\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sophiepope-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"sophiepope\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sophiepope-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sophiepope-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sophiepope.jpg 955w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been like this for some time now.<\/p>\n<p>Probably since the day in June 2015 when Donald J. Trump &#8212; the one-time reality TV celebrity and real estate mogul &#8212; entered the Republican Party presidential primary campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Events of the past 24 hours, though, have brought about a level of weirdness that I don&#8217;t think many of us ever saw coming.<\/p>\n<p>It involves Trump and &#8212; of all people &#8212; his Holiness, Pope Francis I, the head of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>The pontiff is touring Mexico and he said that anyone who wants to build a wall to bar immigrants is &#8220;not Christian.&#8221; He said Scripture doesn&#8217;t condone such a thing. I should note that Pope Francis made his remarks in Spanish and they have been interpreted into English; I trust the translation is accurate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump fired back, calling the pope&#8217;s criticism of an American politician&#8217;s faith &#8220;disgraceful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump kept up his criticism of the pope. To my knowledge, the pope hasn&#8217;t yet answered the GOP frontrunner&#8217;s criticism of him.<\/p>\n<p>I am just not certain now where this campaign goes from here. Nor do I have a clue as to how it could get even stranger.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what? Given that I never thought it would devolve to this level &#8212; with the pope and a leading American politician at odds over a proposal to build a wall &#8212; I am preparing myself for the weirdness level to keep escalating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been like this for some time now. Probably since the day in June 2015 when Donald J. Trump &#8212; the one-time reality TV celebrity and real estate mogul &#8212; entered the Republican Party presidential primary campaign. Events of the past 24 hours, though, have brought about a level of weirdness that I don&#8217;t think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13027\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weirdness overtakes reason on campaign trail<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15],"tags":[1424,1944,2245,3664,5436],"class_list":["post-13027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-religious-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-campaign","tag-immigration","tag-pope-francis","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13031,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions\/13031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}