{"id":3182,"date":"2017-07-27T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2017-07-27T08:26:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:26:15","slug":"the-trump-effect-the-darkness-and-the-rot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/2017\/07\/27\/the-trump-effect-the-darkness-and-the-rot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trump effect: The darkness and the rot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This short <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/edblog\/the-darkness-and-the-rot\">essay<\/a> captures the &#8220;Trump effect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I puzzled over this for some time. Eventually I sensed that Trump wasn\u2019t inducing people\u2019s self-destruction so much as he was acting like a divining rod, revealing rot that existed already but was not apparent. . . . It\u2019s a general malady. Trump is exposing our collective rot. The rotten flock to him. And there\u2019s so much rot to go around.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short essay captures the &#8220;Trump effect.&#8221; &#8220;I puzzled over this for some time. Eventually I sensed that Trump wasn\u2019t inducing people\u2019s self-destruction so much as he was acting like a divining rod, revealing rot that existed already but was not apparent. . . . It\u2019s a general malady. Trump is exposing our collective rot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3183,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/monte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}