{"id":1028,"date":"2004-01-16T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T22:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/how-radically-conservative-the-republican-party-has-become\/"},"modified":"2004-01-16T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2004-01-16T22:47:02","slug":"how-radically-conservative-the-republican-party-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/how-radically-conservative-the-republican-party-has-become\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;how radically conservative the Republican Party has become&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Matt Miller Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mattmilleronline.com\/columns.php?id=78\">PABLO&#8217;S REVENGE<\/a> by Matt Miller Online<\/p>\n<p>That our <b>stunningly incurious president<\/b> and his top advisers have little interest in such evenhanded decision-making underscores the primary lesson of O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s book: <b>how radically conservative the Republican Party has become<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Think of O&#8217;Neill as some centrist Republican Rip Van Winkle, who came back to a GOP White House after 25 years, only to find that his pragmatic approach to public problem-solving made him an alien to be ignored or <b>a prop to be used for &#8220;cover&#8221; by zealots<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s tragedy may be that he never realized, before signing on for this last costly hitch of public service, that in the GOP&#8217;s view, he was already an antique whose <b>notions of responsible governance had long been purged from the center of Republican power<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PABLO&#8217;S REVENGE by Matt Miller Online That our stunningly incurious president and his top advisers have little interest in such evenhanded decision-making underscores the primary lesson of O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s book: how radically conservative the Republican Party has become. Think of O&#8217;Neill as some centrist Republican Rip Van Winkle, who came back to a GOP White House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/how-radically-conservative-the-republican-party-has-become\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;how radically conservative the Republican Party has become&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}