{"id":57323,"date":"2024-07-17T21:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57323"},"modified":"2024-07-17T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:42:24","slug":"things-i-dont-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57323","title":{"rendered":"Things I don&#8217;t get"},"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 world is chock full of matters that pass my occasionally meager understanding. Donald Trump&#8217;s standing in the current public opinion polls is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>With that I must make an admission: I do not understand the thinking of Americans who can justify their backing of a man with the kind of morality, the record of lying, the examples of fraudulent behavior that Trump continues to exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Family members who say they value my opinion on such matters keep asking me why Trump continues to hold this standing. I have no answer. I do not understand it. I cannot fathom anyone backing a candidate for president with so many personal and moral failures as this individual.<\/p>\n<p>He speaks of his &#8220;populism.&#8221; He is no more of a populist than, say, King Louis XVI. He talks about caring for the little guy. When has anyone seen him showing up unannounced to work in a soup kitchen? He talked about losing all those friends in the 9\/11 attacks. Yet &#8230; he never attended a single funeral or memorial service for anyone who died on that horrific day.<\/p>\n<p>His many moral failures are too many to mention here. You know what they are.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, here he is set to capture the Republican Party presidential nomination for the third consecutive election cycle. He won the first time, lost the second go-round and well might win the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Is this nation really so gullible, so prone to this man&#8217;s phony promises to elect him a second time to an office about which he knows absolutely nothing?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot even begin to grasp what might lie ahead for this great land if our worst nightmare comes true.<\/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 world is chock full of matters that pass my occasionally meager understanding. Donald Trump&#8217;s standing in the current public opinion polls is one of them. With that I must make an admission: I do not understand the thinking of Americans who can justify their backing of a man with the kind of morality, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57323\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things I don&#8217;t get<\/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":[7932],"tags":[9543,1424,7419],"class_list":["post-57323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-2024-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323","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=57323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57324,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57323\/revisions\/57324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}