{"id":37853,"date":"2022-12-04T12:53:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T18:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37853"},"modified":"2022-12-04T12:53:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T18:53:04","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-34\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is an odd one. Remember, these nominations are for those folks whose allegiance to the former President has strayed into ludicrousness, much like former <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earl_Landgrebe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep Earl Landgrebe&#8217;s<\/a> (R-IN) did for then-President Nixon (R). Here we are:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump is calling for subversion of the Constitution &amp; either declaring him 2020 presidential winner or holding a \u201cnew election,\u201d saying there should be \u201ctermination of all rules, regulations, &amp; articles, even those found in the Constitution\u201d to undo Biden\u2019s right to presidency. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BIHfQsVpXv\">pic.twitter.com\/BIHfQsVpXv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VaughnHillyard\/status\/1599042348670799872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump is calling for subversion of the Constitution &amp; either declaring him 2020 presidential winner or holding a \u201cnew election,\u201d saying there should be \u201ctermination of all rules, regulations, &amp; articles, even those found in the Constitution\u201d to undo Biden\u2019s right to presidency [in a Truth Social post].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the nomination goes to the former President himself, for his doubling down on his outlandish fraudulent election claims. His is a childish mentality.<\/p>\n<p>A possible subsidiary nomination may go to the entirety of the Republican Party, as Professor Richardson <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/december-3-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes this<\/a> in regard to Trump&#8217;s demented call:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Republicans, so far, are silent on Trump\u2019s profound attack on the Constitution, the basis of our democratic government.<\/p>\n<p>That is the story, and it is earth shattering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s earth shattering depends on the size of the Republican Party. The latest <em><strong>Gallup<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/15370\/party-affiliation.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Party Affiliation<\/em><\/a> poll does suggest some reason for concern, as Republicans are now at 33% of the population as of October 3rd, after being at only 24% in August. I wonder about bad polling, or outliers.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to the former President for the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this is an odd one. Remember, these nominations are for those folks whose allegiance to the former President has strayed into ludicrousness, much like former Rep Earl Landgrebe&#8217;s (R-IN) did for then-President Nixon (R). Here we are: Trump is calling for subversion of the Constitution &amp; either declaring him \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-34\/\"> Continue reading <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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37853","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\/37853","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=37853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37854,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37853\/revisions\/37854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}