{"id":7519,"date":"2015-12-03T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7519"},"modified":"2015-12-03T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T15:10:21","slug":"are-american-voters-morons-republican-candidates-hope-we-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/are-american-voters-morons-republican-candidates-hope-we-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Are American voters morons? Republican candidates hope we are."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/dec\/02\/jeb-bush-hillary-clinton-ben-carson-trump-republican-stupid-torch-smartphone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook\">Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton is the worst candidate. Has he noticed the Republicans? | Tim Dowling | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4><strong>Virtual vacuums of the mind<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cOn some great and glorious day,\u201d the American journalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2006\/feb\/26\/biography.features\">HL Mencken<\/a> once wrote, \u201cthe plain folks of the land will reach their heart\u2019s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.\u201d At the time, in 1920, he was facing the daunting prospect of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/aug\/13\/warren-harding-daughter-mistress-dna-test\">Warren Harding<\/a> \u2013 \u201ca hollow-headed mediocrity\u201d, Mencken called him \u2013 becoming America\u2019s dumbest president. A few months later, Harding won by a landslide.  <\/p>\n<p>The quotation regained popularity as a kind of prophesy in the time of George W Bush\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/dec\/02\/jeb-bush-hillary-clinton-ben-carson-trump-republican-stupid-torch-smartphone?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook\">Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton is the worst candidate. Has he noticed the Republicans? | Tim Dowling | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeb Bush says Hillary Clinton is the worst candidate. Has he noticed the Republicans? | Tim Dowling | Comment is free | The Guardian Virtual vacuums of the mind \u201cOn some great and glorious day,\u201d the American journalist HL Mencken once wrote, \u201cthe plain folks of the land will reach their heart\u2019s desire at last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/are-american-voters-morons-republican-candidates-hope-we-are\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are American voters morons? Republican candidates hope we are.<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519","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=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7520,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions\/7520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}