{"id":52819,"date":"2022-09-04T20:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52819"},"modified":"2022-09-04T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T20:22:17","slug":"why-the-hysterical-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52819","title":{"rendered":"Why the hysterical response?"},"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\/2022\/09\/biden-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52796\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/biden-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/biden-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/biden-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/biden-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/biden-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/biden-2048x1153.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am I imagining it or is the right-wing cabal of alleged political thinkers acting as if the president of the United States might have hit &#8217;em where they hurt?<\/p>\n<p>President Biden took some national TV time the other evening to blame the &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; who comprise a shrinking but still significant portion of a once-grand old party for stealing the &#8220;soul of the nation.&#8221; He also called them a threat to democracy because of their constant threats of violence and their insistence that the 2020 presidential election was the result of &#8220;widespread voter fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The right-wingers have fired back with both barrels. They accuse Biden of inciting division himself. They call him the worst president in history. They excoriate him for offending &#8220;half the country&#8221; that still supports Donald Trump; actually, it ain&#8217;t half, but instead is a significant &#8212; but dwindling &#8212; minority of Americans who still swallow the swill that Trump is serving.<\/p>\n<p>The hysterical response suggests to me that President Biden has told &#8217;em the truth. Or, as President &#8220;Give &#8220;em Hell Harry&#8221; Truman might say, <em>&#8220;He told them the truth and they just think it&#8217;s hell.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><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>Am I imagining it or is the right-wing cabal of alleged political thinkers acting as if the president of the United States might have hit &#8217;em where they hurt? President Biden took some national TV time the other evening to blame the &#8220;MAGA Republicans&#8221; who comprise a shrinking but still significant portion of a once-grand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the hysterical response?<\/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":[9597,13,7926,14],"tags":[1941,2505,7419,6437],"class_list":["post-52819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joe-biden","category-national-news","category-national-security","category-political-news","tag-gop","tag-joe-biden","tag-maga","tag-right-wingers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52819","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=52819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52820,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52819\/revisions\/52820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}