{"id":39070,"date":"2019-10-01T20:08:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39070"},"modified":"2019-10-01T20:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T20:08:02","slug":"maga-rally-on-tap-in-dallas-dare-i-see-what-its-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39070","title":{"rendered":"MAGA rally on tap in Dallas … dare I see what it’s all about?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have just committed — more or less — to doing something I hope I am able to withstand physically, let alone emotionally.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump is coming to Dallas in a couple of weeks. He is going to stage a “MAGA Rally” at the American Airlines Center\u00a0 in downtown Dallas. I presume the place will be full.<\/p>\n

I just obtained a ticket from the Trump campaign’s official website. Ticket is sitting on my desk at home. I am looking at it as I type this brief message.<\/p>\n

A part of me wants to go. In fact, most of me wants to see this spectacle for myself, to get a ringside seat for this stream-of-consciousness litany of insult and innuendo that is sure to pour fourth from the president’s pie hole.<\/p>\n

A much smaller part of me wonders: Are you out of your fu***** mind?<\/em><\/p>\n

Actually, no. I am of sound mind. My belief is that in order to understand a little better this individual’s appeal to a substantial — but shrinking — part of the American electorate I need to see one of these events up close.<\/p>\n

I once took a friendly wager from the late mayor of Beaumont, Texas, Maury Meyers, to watch Rush Limbaugh on TV and listen to his radio broadcast over a span of time before making any snap judgement on his message. I accepted Meyers’ challenge.<\/p>\n

Then I determined after about two weeks watching Limbaugh that the blowhard was worse than I thought. I wrote a column about my experience watching the right-wing gas bag and determined that Limbaugh was the Willard Scott of political commentary.<\/p>\n

Except that Willard Scott, formerly the “Today” show weatherman, “makes me laugh” while Limbaugh “makes me sick.”<\/p>\n

I fear I am going to get physically ill standing among the thousands of Trump supporters, cheering his mindlessness, whoopin’ and hollerin’ when he tosses out lie after lie.<\/p>\n

At this moment, though, I am committed to attending this MAGA rally. Perhaps if I see, hear and feel<\/em> the emotion boiling up inside the arena, I’ll be better prepared to say what I know already.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump is unfit for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n\n

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I have just committed — more or less — to doing something I hope I am able to withstand physically, let alone emotionally. Donald J. Trump is coming to Dallas in a couple of weeks. He is going to stage a “MAGA Rally” at the American Airlines Center\u00a0 in downtown Dallas. I presume the place … Continue reading MAGA rally on tap in Dallas … dare I see what it’s all about?<\/span> →<\/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":[14],"tags":[8959,1424,8958],"class_list":["post-39070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-american-airlines-center","tag-donald-trump","tag-maga-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070","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=39070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39071,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39070\/revisions\/39071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}