{"id":51868,"date":"2022-06-08T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51868"},"modified":"2022-06-08T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:20:14","slug":"right-wingers-win-the-argument-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51868","title":{"rendered":"Right wingers win the argument &#8230; so far"},"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\/2019\/10\/MAGA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39267\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/MAGA.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is no great flash to those who are smarter than I am, but I have concluded how the right wingers out there are able to outshout the rest of us in this so-called &#8220;battle of ideas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They succeed because they appeal to Americans&#8217; base instincts. We are so very quick to criticize those in power. The right wingers, therefore, are appealing to Americans&#8217; lowest common denominator. It is fueled by ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, when I see President Biden&#8217;s diminishing approval ratings in public polls, I see an opportunity for Biden&#8217;s supporters to strike back &#8230; and hard!<\/p>\n<p>The obvious consequence will be that the quality of the political debate will sink faster a cruise ship that hits an iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>The equally obvious alternative is to let the MAGA crowd win the argument, which then will lead to MAGA candidates emerging victorious.<\/p>\n<p>I do not want that to happen. I do want the reasonable center-left and even some &#8220;mainstream Republicans&#8221; to tear a page from the MAGA playbook &#8230; and then hit the far right wingers with the same demagoguery they have been pitching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>This is no great flash to those who are smarter than I am, but I have concluded how the right wingers out there are able to outshout the rest of us in this so-called &#8220;battle of ideas.&#8221; They succeed because they appeal to Americans&#8217; base instincts. We are so very quick to criticize those in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Right wingers win the argument &#8230; so far<\/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],"tags":[7419,6437],"class_list":["post-51868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-maga","tag-right-wingers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868","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=51868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51869,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868\/revisions\/51869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}