{"id":24437,"date":"2016-07-29T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24437"},"modified":"2016-07-29T14:39:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T18:39:27","slug":"yoink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24437","title":{"rendered":"Yoink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2016\/07\/29\/clinton-and-the-convention-and-where-we-go-from-here\/\">John Scalzi writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During President Obama\u2019s speech on the third night, I started seeing tweets and comments from GOP operatives that were, bluntly, a little shell-shocked at how much better and, honestly, more <em>adult <\/em>Obama and the other DNCs speakers\u2019 speeches were than what transpired at the RNC the week before. The general gist of the tweets was \u201c<em>Waaaaaaah <\/em>the Democrats are stealing our stuff\u201d \u2014 meaning the themes of patriotism, military honor and, yes, \u201creal American-ness\u201d had found their way into the DNC speeches when they should have been at the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly true the Democrats swept up all that iconography, gave it the slightest of twists to the left, and held it up for all to see. But two things here. One, it never was the GOPs to own exclusively in the first place, particularly when the rhetoric of the GOP rarely jibed with the policies of the GOP. The Democrats have as much right to them as the GOP does. Two, well, what the hell did the GOP expect? You left all that iconography just lying around because you\u2019re off nominating a self-interested blowhard who is trying to scare the shit out of enough old white people to get into the White House. What did you <em>think <\/em>was going to happen? The Democrats were just going to leave it in the yard for you to come back to in 2020? Rumor is, the Democrats would like to win the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>As others elsewhere have noted, the problem with the Democrats using these themes previously is not that they couldn\u2019t use them, but that given the high-volume co-option of the themes by the GOP, it seems like the Democrats were saying, \u201chey, us <em>too<\/em>,\u201d which is not a good look. This year, they don\u2019t have to worry about that, and of course that\u2019s no one\u2019s fault but the GOP\u2019s. The other thing about that is that now that these themes are in the Democrats\u2019 hands, the GOP\u2019s attempt to use them later is likely to have that \u201chey, us too\u201d feel to it, which will not be a good look for them, either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi writes: During President Obama\u2019s speech on the third night, I started seeing tweets and comments from GOP operatives that were, bluntly, a little shell-shocked at how much better and, honestly, more adult Obama and the other DNCs speakers\u2019 speeches were than what transpired at the RNC the week before. The general gist of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24438,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24437\/revisions\/24438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}