{"id":4301,"date":"2016-07-28T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2016-07-28T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:26:07","slug":"political-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/07\/28\/political-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"

The political punditry has certainly had reason to buzz over the Trump candidacy, but lately it’s been expressing a new emotion: fear<\/em>. Andrew Sullivan<\/a>\u00a0appears to be nearly breaking down during his live-blogging, Steve Benen has certainly expressed deep concern, and now Steve\u00a0reports Ezra Klein<\/em>, too, is deeply worried<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Vox\u2019s Ezra Klein wrote a compelling piece<\/a> last week on the degree to which Trump has left him, on a very personal level, feeling scared. The night of the Republican\u2019s convention speech, Ezra said he felt \u201cgenuinely\u201d afraid for \u201cthe first time since I began covering American politics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ezra added yesterday<\/a>, after Trump\u2019s bizarre press conference in which he called for Russian intervention in the U.S. election, \u201cIt\u2019s weird to keep saying this, but this is not okay. This is not a man with the temperament, the steadiness, the discipline to be president. The issue here isn\u2019t left versus right, or liberal versus conservative, or Democrat versus Republican. It\u2019s crazy versus not crazy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After watching Obama’s endorsement speech last night, Trump is in the unfortunate position of being implicitly compared to a man who stepped into a very difficult position and really hit the ball out of the ballpark. Never a panicked move, hardly any mistakes, zero scandals, just a Congressional GOP that forgot how to compromise. This is not to excuse Trump, of course, but merely to point out the stark contrast between the current occupant, well trained in the government sector<\/a>, and a businessman whose very competency may not be all we’d like to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The political punditry has certainly had reason to buzz over the Trump candidacy, but lately it’s been expressing a new emotion: fear. Andrew Sullivan\u00a0appears to be nearly breaking down during his live-blogging, Steve Benen has certainly expressed deep concern, and now Steve\u00a0reports Ezra Klein, too, is deeply worried: Vox\u2019s Ezra \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-4301","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\/4301","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=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}