{"id":13527,"date":"2019-10-11T11:52:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:57:57","slug":"the-cultural-civil-war-and-trump-derangement-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-cultural-civil-war-and-trump-derangement-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cultural Civil War and Trump Derangement Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-11-The-Cultural-Civil-War-and-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-Frontpage-Mag-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-11-The-Cultural-Civil-War-and-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-Frontpage-Mag-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-11-The-Cultural-Civil-War-and-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-Frontpage-Mag-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-11-The-Cultural-Civil-War-and-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-Frontpage-Mag-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-11-The-Cultural-Civil-War-and-Trump-Derangement-Syndrome-Frontpage-Mag.png 1098w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>And what happens when politics becomes culture.   <\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>FrontPage Mag<\/strong>, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; October 11, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Black Death originated in Chinese rats, Ebola in monkeys in the  Congo, and Trump Derangement Syndrome in furious liberal suburbanites  who swarmed D.C. wearing pink hats and screaming at the sky.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>To understand the virology of Trump Derangement Syndrome, it\u2019s  important to distinguish between ideological and cultural lefties.  Contrary to expectations, TDS is found less among ideological lefties  who actually know their politics than among cultural lefties who don\u2019t  even think in political terms.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Contrast Bernie Sanders, a professional socialist politician, with  Debra Messing, Ashley Judd, or any of the other Hollywood #resistance  celebs with a poor understanding of politics, but an unhinged conviction  that Trump\u2019s very existence is an unbearable insult to the cultural  fabric of their existence.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ideological lefties know their Marx, Alinsky, and their Crenshaw. Their  hostility to Trump is relentless, but it\u2019s the cold, political enmity  of a faction that sees him as a dangerous threat to their agenda, but  also as an opportunity to rapidly radicalize the Democrats to embrace  previously unthinkable options.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/10\/cultural-civil-war-and-trump-derangement-syndrome-daniel-greenfield\">https:\/\/cms.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2019\/10\/cultural-civil-war-and-trump-derangement-syndrome-daniel-greenfield<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And what happens when politics becomes culture. FrontPage Mag, by Daniel Greenfield &#8212; October 11, 2019 Excerpt: The Black Death originated in Chinese rats, Ebola in monkeys in the Congo, and Trump Derangement Syndrome in furious liberal suburbanites who swarmed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/the-cultural-civil-war-and-trump-derangement-syndrome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13530,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions\/13530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}