{"id":57331,"date":"2024-07-19T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57331"},"modified":"2024-07-19T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T15:24:01","slug":"unity-message-mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57331","title":{"rendered":"Unity message: MIA"},"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 class=\"has-drop-cap\">I tried to listen to Donald Trump\u2019s acceptance speech before the Republican National Convention, but when he kept going on and on with his embellished version of the assassination attempt on his life, I threw in the towel.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I managed to read a good bit of the text of his speech and discovered that he threw out the word \u201cunity\u201d many times, but the message he delivered sounded very much like his two previous GOP acceptance speeches.<\/p>\n<p>He talked about wanting to be president for all Americans, not just the portion of us who cling his words. Fine. Good deal. How will he deliver on that promise? He didn\u2019t say. I reckon he doesn\u2019t know what he would do \u2026 if anything!<\/p>\n<p>For many Republican presidential primaries dating back to around the 1976 season, abortion has been top-of-mind stuff for GOP delegates. Not this year. Did you notice the absence of any mention of the practice? I did. It\u2019s because Trump and his cult followers know they are on the wrong side of that issue.<\/p>\n<p>Unity is essential for anyone who wants to govern. It\u2019s no different for Donald Trump. His problem, though, is that he has built his political career on the notion of dividing and conquering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"atatags-370373-669a8450c600c\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"wordads-preview-parent\" class=\"wpcnt\">\n<div class=\"wpa\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\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>I tried to listen to Donald Trump\u2019s acceptance speech before the Republican National Convention, but when he kept going on and on with his embellished version of the assassination attempt on his life, I threw in the towel. Still, I managed to read a good bit of the text of his speech and discovered that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unity message: MIA<\/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":[14],"tags":[122,1941,7419,7269],"class_list":["post-57331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-abortion","tag-gop","tag-maga","tag-unity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57331","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=57331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57332,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57331\/revisions\/57332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}