{"id":42465,"date":"2025-06-18T12:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42465"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:46:25","slug":"word-of-the-day-1045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/18\/word-of-the-day-1045\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caudillo<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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  1. A leader.<\/li>\n
  2. A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America. [Wiktionary<\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That’s a new one on me. I get the impression it’s used to express some disdain. Noted in “The American Caudillo<\/em><\/a>,” Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    And anyone peacefully protesting this grotesque cooptation of a military parade worthy of Putin or Xi? They will be met with a \u201cvery heavy force<\/a>,\u201d just as they would be in Beijing or Moscow. Yes, that\u2019s what free speech now amounts to in this man\u2019s America. Write an op-ed criticizing a foreign country\u2019s mass infanticide, and you will be deported\u00a0pronto<\/a>. Protest this caudillo\u2019s trashing of every American value since the Founding, and his masked thugs will arrest you, deport you, or\u00a0injure you<\/a>. Be a US Senator and ask a cabinet secretary some questions at a press conference, and guards will wrestle you to the ground and\u00a0cuff you<\/a>. This administration has now praised ICE and Secret Service violence against elected Democratic officials more than once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Caudillo: A leader. A military dictator, especially one ruling in Spain, Portugal or Latin America. [Wiktionary] That’s a new one on me. I get the impression it’s used to express some disdain. Noted in “The American Caudillo,” Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish: And anyone peacefully protesting this grotesque cooptation of \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-42465","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\/42465","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=42465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42466,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42465\/revisions\/42466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}