{"id":56457,"date":"2024-01-16T21:34:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T21:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56457"},"modified":"2024-01-16T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T21:34:40","slug":"what-has-happened-to-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56457","title":{"rendered":"What has happened to GOP?"},"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>The Iowa caucus results are in and the 45th POTUS is the clear and convincing winner of 2024&#8217;s first contest of the presidential cycle.<\/p>\n<p>I had hoped for a different outcome, but &#8230; well, it didn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>Thus I am left to wonder anew about the state of the Republican Party, whose caucus-goers would embrace a man who:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calls a Vietnam War hero a &#8220;loser&#8221; because he was captured by the enemy.<\/li>\n<li>Admits to cheating on all of his wives.<\/li>\n<li>Says he might &#8220;date&#8221; his daughter were he not her father.<\/li>\n<li>Mocks a reporter for a physical disability from which he suffers.<\/li>\n<li>Says he can grab women by their genitals because he is &#8220;famous.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dismisses the intelligence findings of his spy network of experts in favor of some remarks by the murdering Russian dictator.<\/li>\n<li>Boasts about a &#8220;love letter&#8221; he received from another tyrant, the guy who lets North Koreans suffer.<\/li>\n<li>Tosses love at dictators around the world for the &#8220;strength&#8221; they show in subjugating their people.<\/li>\n<li>Pledges to assert authoritarian power &#8220;on the first day&#8221; of a presidency were he elected at the end of this year.<\/li>\n<li>Never once admits he lost the 2020 election and denies his successor the &#8220;peaceful transition of power&#8221; he deserves.<\/li>\n<li>Chastises those who planned the mission to kill Osama bin Laden because they didn&#8217;t do it sooner.<\/li>\n<li>Threatens to pardon the mobsters facing criminal prosecution for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on our government.<\/li>\n<li>Has been impeached twice by the House and faces four indictments on 91 felony criminal counts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the guy Republicans seem to prefer for the office of president of the United States of America?<\/p>\n<p>God help them. And the rest of us, too.<\/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>The Iowa caucus results are in and the 45th POTUS is the clear and convincing winner of 2024&#8217;s first contest of the presidential cycle. I had hoped for a different outcome, but &#8230; well, it didn&#8217;t happen. Thus I am left to wonder anew about the state of the Republican Party, whose caucus-goers would embrace &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=56457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What has happened to GOP?<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","category-national-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56457","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=56457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56458,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56457\/revisions\/56458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}