{"id":57249,"date":"2024-06-29T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57249"},"modified":"2024-06-29T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:01:45","slug":"how-can-gop-go-through-this-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57249","title":{"rendered":"How can GOP go through this change?"},"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>Never, not ever in a zillion years, will I understand what has become of the modern Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>It has gone from being a party that prided itself on moral rectitude, on so-called &#8220;family values&#8221; and on insisting that character matters in selecting candidates for our cherished public offices to a cult-following mob of miscreants who tie their hay wagon to the heels of a man named Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump stood before us this week and launched into a never-ending tirade of lies that will not draw a single rebuke from what passes as leadership within the once-Grand Old Party.<\/p>\n<p>His brazenness defies logic.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already discussed briefly the abysmal performance turned in by President Biden. However, I am not going to join the amen chorus calling on him to step aside.<\/p>\n<p>I am, however, going to call attention to the moral decline of the Republican Party. For the third presidential election cycle in a row, the GOP is nominating a convicted felon, an admitted sexual assailant, a serial philanderer, someone who has been found liable in a court of law for the rape of a woman.<\/p>\n<p>There once was a time when the parties sought to nominate the best among us for our nation&#8217;s highest office. Donald Trump represents the <em>worst<\/em> of us.<\/p>\n<p>If we Americans are so damn stupid to give this guy the keys to the White House once again, then we are in far worse condition as a nation than I ever thought possible.<\/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>Never, not ever in a zillion years, will I understand what has become of the modern Republican Party. It has gone from being a party that prided itself on moral rectitude, on so-called &#8220;family values&#8221; and on insisting that character matters in selecting candidates for our cherished public offices to a cult-following mob of miscreants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57249\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How can GOP go through this change?<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1424,1941,7419],"class_list":["post-57249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57249","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=57249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57250,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57249\/revisions\/57250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}