{"id":18597,"date":"2018-12-08T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18597"},"modified":"2018-12-08T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T16:17:30","slug":"remark-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/08\/remark-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remark Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Gerson has recognized something I&#8217;ve been talking about for a while, and that is the tendency to chase moderate members out of the Republican Party using the charge of <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Michael Gerson has recognized something I've been talking about for a while, and that is the tendency to chase members out of the Republican Party using the charge of RINO will be, well, self-defeating. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/10\/charge-of-the-rinos\/\" target=\"_blank\">RINO<\/a><\/em><\/strong> will be, well, self-defeating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The class of departing Republicans includes a few who won\u2019t be missed. (Hint: One has a last name that begins with \u201cRohrabache-\u201d.) But many of the House losses came in suburban districts that required outreach beyond the Trump-intoxicated base. Nationally, Democrats won about&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mehlmancastagnetti.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Split-Decision-2018Midterms.pdf\">70 percent of votes&nbsp;<\/a>cast in suburban House districts. This means the political grim reaper came for some of the most reasonable elements within the party. This process is the reverse of natural selection \u2014 call it the survival of the witless.<br><\/p><cite><strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/trump-is-a-political-vampire\/2018\/12\/06\/e73c7da6-f988-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"[WaPo] (opens in a new tab)\">WaPo<\/a>]<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerson&#8217;s a neo-conservative, and another of a group of conservatives that has little use for the current incarnation of the <strong><em>GOP<\/em><\/strong>. I don&#8217;t think much of neocons myself, as they seem somewhat unrealistic. After all, they did start &amp; cheerlead the Iraq War. But it&#8217;s good to see another conservative recognize the pathological nature of a key <strong><em>GOP<\/em><\/strong> process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Gerson has recognized something I&#8217;ve been talking about for a while, and that is the tendency to chase moderate members out of the Republican Party using the charge of RINO will be, well, self-defeating. The class of departing Republicans includes a few who won\u2019t be missed. (Hint: One has \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/08\/remark-of-the-day-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18597"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18606,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18597\/revisions\/18606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}