{"id":37711,"date":"2022-11-08T14:29:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37711"},"modified":"2022-11-08T14:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:29:37","slug":"a-logical-consequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/08\/a-logical-consequence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Logical Consequence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The political world’s worst kept secret<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Rep.\u00a0Dan Crenshaw<\/a>\u00a0(R-Texas) revealed what election deniers actually say behind closed doors as a slew of reality-defying candidates run as\u00a0Republicans<\/a> in next week\u2019s 2022 midterms.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up,\u201d the Texas Republican said of the lie that\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a> was cheated by widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election during the latest episode of his \u201cHold These Truths\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve talked about this ad nausea, it really made me angry,\u201d the former Navy SEAL told election reform advocate Nick Troiano. \u201cBecause I\u2019m like, the promises you\u2019re making that you\u2019re gonna challenge the Electoral College and overturn the election, there\u2019s not even a process for you to do that. It doesn\u2019t even exist.\u201d [HuffPost<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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But it’s worth noting that this is a logical and dishonorable consequence of what I’ll call The Gingrich Dictum<\/strong>, which, summarized, is Win at any cost! Deny the Democrats any victory!<\/em> By putting victory over honesty, over honor, we end up in seeing Crenshaw’s observation, people who may think they’re doing something for the good of the country, or are just pursuing power, position, and ego, but are, instead, endangering the country because they’re empowering interfering Russians<\/a>, discouraging the electorate’s confidence in our long-developed systems, and causing intense divisiveness.<\/p>\n

This arrogance needs to be stopped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The political world’s worst kept secret: Rep.\u00a0Dan Crenshaw\u00a0(R-Texas) revealed what election deniers actually say behind closed doors as a slew of reality-defying candidates run as\u00a0Republicans in next week\u2019s 2022 midterms. \u201cIt was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-37711","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\/37711","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=37711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37712,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37711\/revisions\/37712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}