{"id":39239,"date":"2019-10-11T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39239"},"modified":"2019-10-11T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T21:11:28","slug":"maga-rally-could-round-out-life-experience-just-as-klan-rallies-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39239","title":{"rendered":"MAGA rally could round out life experience, just as Klan rallies did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MAGArally%20%23KKK%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-rally-two.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39240\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-rally-two-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-rally-two-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-rally-two-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-rally-two-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-rally-two.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am not going draw any ideological parallels between Donald Trump&#8217;s political rallies to Ku Klux Klan rallies, however, it strikes me that I ought to explain why I am drawn to the notion of attending one of those Trump events.<\/p>\n<p>We have one coming up next Thursday at the American Airlines Center. The president will be there to whip his followers up and get &#8217;em energized as he ramps up his re-election effort in the face of probable impeachment by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>I want to attend this rally because I am drawn by the pull of seeing of these spectacles up close, from a ringside seat.<\/p>\n<p>I had similar pulls years ago. I attended two Ku Klux Klan rallies. The first one occurred in the early 1990s in Orange County, Texas. The second rally was in 2006 in Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I go? I was working for daily newspapers at the time. No one <em>assigned<\/em> me to either of these events. I just felt compelled to go because I needed to get a sense of what drove Klansmen to say the things they do about African-Americans and what drove their supporters to cheer the verbal sewage that spilled out of the Klansmen&#8217;s mouths.<\/p>\n<p>I got an earful at both events. In their way, both KKK rallies helped round out my professional experience in a fashion that I cannot to this day describe.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the Trump rally in Dallas next week will fill out another blank in my journalism upbringing, even though I no longer work full time for any publication. I write this blog for myself. It is full of my own bias, which I do not hide from anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I find the idea of attending a presidential re-election rally to be an irresistible urge, even if it has anything to do with a president named Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23MAGArally%20%23KKK%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not going draw any ideological parallels between Donald Trump&#8217;s political rallies to Ku Klux Klan rallies, however, it strikes me that I ought to explain why I am drawn to the notion of attending one of those Trump events. We have one coming up next Thursday at the American Airlines Center. The president &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MAGA rally could round out life experience, just as Klan rallies did<\/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":[9],"tags":[1424,2692,8970,8958],"class_list":["post-39239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-kkk","tag-klan-rally","tag-maga-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239","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=39239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39241,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39239\/revisions\/39241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}