{"id":31741,"date":"2022-02-23T15:47:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31741"},"modified":"2022-02-23T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T20:47:44","slug":"admitting-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31741","title":{"rendered":"Admitting Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinion\/ny-oped-conservatism-is-over-just-ask-conservatives-20220222-fhrhrxvdxrfyvchtn7iw4bxjii-story.html\">It seems as though<\/a> the right may finally be starting to drop the charade. This weekend, ACU chairman Matt Schlapp confessed to Steve Bannon, \u201cThe conservative movement, which I don\u2019t use, I call it the American movement, \u2018cause that\u2019s all it is, we are no longer conservatives, we are Americans who love our founding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To put that statement in sharp relief: The chairman of the American CONSERVATIVE Union, who runs the CONSERVATIVE Political Action Conference, whose website states boldly, \u201cWe define conservatism,\u201d and whose group calls itself the nation\u2019s \u201coldest conservative grassroots organization,\u201d and who rates lawmakers on scales of liberal-to-conservative, and who tells supporters to sign up for \u201cconservatism in your inbox,\u201d and \u201cJoin the conservative fight,\u201d says \u201cwe are no longer conservatives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as though the right may finally be starting to drop the charade. This weekend, ACU chairman Matt Schlapp confessed to Steve Bannon, \u201cThe conservative movement, which I don\u2019t use, I call it the American movement, \u2018cause that\u2019s all it is, we are no longer conservatives, we are Americans who love our founding.\u201d To [&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-31741","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\/31741","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=31741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31742,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31741\/revisions\/31742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}