{"id":40315,"date":"2017-09-29T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40315"},"modified":"2018-09-18T11:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:08:01","slug":"judge-roy-moore-as-a-sign-that-worse-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/judge-roy-moore-as-a-sign-that-worse-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Roy Moore as a sign that worse is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESR posted <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/+EricRaymond\/posts\/bKobNRmCVDt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> to G+ yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Roy Moore, a truly repellent creature who reifies every liberal&#8217;s fantasy of what fundamentalist conservatives are like (well, except for the racism &#8211; even Moore is not actually a racist), has won in Alabama against a candidate backed by the GOP establishment and Trump.<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder if Democrats are too far gone to heed the warning.<\/p>\n<p>You demonized the Tea Party, and you got Trump. If you neutralize or expel Trump as you dream of doing, <strong>worse is coming<\/strong>. Roy Moore is worse. Roy Moore is a sign. The conservative\/populist revolt can no longer be contained even by Trump. The beast is loose.<\/p>\n<p>Time to question your assumptions, Democrats (and establishment Republicans). The more painful and disruptive that self-questioning is, the more likely it is that your party might escape the destruction that is coming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instapundit<\/a> often says, &#8220;Do you want more Trump? Because this is how you get more Trump.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESR posted this to G+ yesterday: Judge Roy Moore, a truly repellent creature who reifies every liberal&#8217;s fantasy of what fundamentalist conservatives are like (well, except for the racism &#8211; even Moore is not actually a racist), has won in Alabama against a candidate backed by the GOP establishment and Trump. And I wonder if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[235,431,1037,1235,517,327],"class_list":["post-40315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-alabama","tag-conservatism","tag-donaldtrump","tag-esr","tag-republican","tag-teaparty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-auf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315","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=40315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40316,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions\/40316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}