{"id":34777,"date":"2016-05-13T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34777"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T15:44:17","slug":"trumps-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/05\/13\/trumps-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-05-11\/the-u-s-doesn-t-need-a-ceo-in-chief\" target=\"_blank\">Megan McArdle<\/a> on the pointlessness of trying to analyze any given policy of Donald Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Critiquing Donald Trump\u2019s policy pronouncements for being implausible feels a bit like belittling bathroom graffiti for its weak use of metaphor and inappropriate deployment of the conditional rather than the subjunctive. Sure, you may be technically correct, but you\u2019ve failed to grapple with the essentials of the form. And neither the author nor his audience is likely to take your criticisms to heart.<\/p>\n<p>But what can we pundits do? The man is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party. For the next six months, he will be saying things. Much of what he says will be unbearably silly, if not horrifying. These periodic eruptions must be either dealt with or ignored, and neither option seems very appealing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megan McArdle on the pointlessness of trying to analyze any given policy of Donald Trump: Critiquing Donald Trump\u2019s policy pronouncements for being implausible feels a bit like belittling bathroom graffiti for its weak use of metaphor and inappropriate deployment of the conditional rather than the subjunctive. Sure, you may be technically correct, but you\u2019ve failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[1037,188],"class_list":["post-34777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donaldtrump","tag-electionwatch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-92V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34778,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34777\/revisions\/34778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}