{"id":29780,"date":"2019-12-15T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29780"},"modified":"2019-12-15T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T20:56:09","slug":"boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29780","title":{"rendered":"Boot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/12\/15\/only-principle-republicans-have-left-is-partisanship\/\">Max Boot<\/a> sounds an awful lot like me, today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, I know this looks bad. It looks like Republicans have no principles and no core beliefs. But there you are wrong, my friends. They do have a principle. Here it is: <em>Whatever helps the Republican Party is good. Whatever hurts the Republican Party is bad.<\/em> To understand the modern GOP, you don\u2019t have to study unitary executive theory, supply-side economics, Burkean philosophy or anything else. All you have to do is remember those 14 words.<\/p>\n<p>Once you understand that is Republicans\u2019 sole philosophy, everything else clicks into place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29758\">I mean<\/a>...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Boot sounds an awful lot like me, today. Oh, I know this looks bad. It looks like Republicans have no principles and no core beliefs. But there you are wrong, my friends. They do have a principle. Here it is: Whatever helps the Republican Party is good. Whatever hurts the Republican Party is bad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780","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=29780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29782,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29780\/revisions\/29782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}