{"id":13067,"date":"2016-02-21T03:35:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T03:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13067"},"modified":"2016-02-21T03:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T03:35:31","slug":"trump-breaks-all-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13067","title":{"rendered":"Trump breaks all the rules"},"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\/720x405-GettyImages-481233084.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12737\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12737\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/720x405-GettyImages-481233084-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"720x405-GettyImages-481233084\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/720x405-GettyImages-481233084-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/720x405-GettyImages-481233084.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become almost a clich\u00e9 these days to note how Donald J. Trump has broken all the standard political rules.<\/p>\n<p>He has gone on record as supporting abortion on demand, single-payer health insurance, he&#8217;s given money to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s previous campaigns, he calls the Iraq War a &#8220;huge mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Republican Party primary\u00a0base of voters would seem to oppose him on every one of those issues.<\/p>\n<p>They love the guy. He won again tonight in South Carolina&#8217;s Republican primary.<\/p>\n<p>Another rule &#8212; generally speaking &#8212; is to pay some kind of tribute to a vanquished foe. Tonight the foe was former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who bowed out of the campaign. Bush congratulated &#8220;the other candidates&#8221; who fared better than he did; I presume he included Trump among them.<\/p>\n<p>Did the victor of tonight&#8217;s South Carolina primary return a compliment to Bush? Umm. No.<\/p>\n<p>He ignored Jeb Bush. He passed over any mention.<\/p>\n<p>Another rule of good manners &#8230; <em>broken!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Will it matter to those who just adore Trump? Hardly.<\/p>\n<p>This has become a campaign where all the standard norms of decent behavior have been tossed aside.<\/p>\n<p>Go &#8230; bleeping &#8230; figure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 become almost a clich\u00e9 these days to note how Donald J. Trump has broken all the standard political rules. He has gone on record as supporting abortion on demand, single-payer health insurance, he&#8217;s given money to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s previous campaigns, he calls the Iraq War a &#8220;huge mistake.&#8221; The\u00a0Republican Party primary\u00a0base of voters would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump breaks all the rules<\/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],"tags":[1424,1941,2429,5956],"class_list":["post-13067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-jeb-bush","tag-sc-primary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067","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=13067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13068,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13067\/revisions\/13068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}