{"id":59869,"date":"2026-05-27T03:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59869"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:09:33","slug":"candidate-will-be-gone-ideology-will-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59869","title":{"rendered":"Candidate will be gone, ideology will remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p>One day quite soon, I am confident that our American political system will rid itself of the poisonous MAGA founder, Donald Trump.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>He&#8217;s been elected twice as president. The Constitution says two terms is enough. No more. He&#8217;ll be gone and on Jan. 20, 2029, someone new will take office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I will be glad to send Trump packing. I fear, however, that the movement he founded will linger for a good while longer. It will lurk in the shadows. It will present itself on occasion when the right candidate feels comfortable enough to run on the MAGA notion &#8230; whatever the hell it is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I say this provide some counsel to those who are looking forward to Election Day 2028 when Trump&#8217;s name won&#8217;t be on the ballot for the first time since 2012 when Barack Obama won re-election as president. The 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections all had Trump&#8217;s name on ballots.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>This imbecile has poisoned the presidency. His corruption is utterly breathtaking. So is his vengefulness. His lack of empathy, his grace, his collegiality all are MIA. Trump&#8217;s poison will take time to cleanse itself.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Trump&#8217;s exit is welcome. I won&#8217;t be cheering too loudly, knowing that what he has built will remain.<\/p>\r\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>One day quite soon, I am confident that our American political system will rid itself of the poisonous MAGA founder, Donald Trump. He&#8217;s been elected twice as president. The Constitution says two terms is enough. No more. He&#8217;ll be gone and on Jan. 20, 2029, someone new will take office. I will be glad to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=59869\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Candidate will be gone, ideology will remain<\/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":[1],"tags":[5451,1424,1941,2652,7419],"class_list":["post-59869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-collegiality","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-ken-paxton","tag-maga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59869","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=59869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59871,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59869\/revisions\/59871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}