{"id":17,"date":"2017-02-28T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.johnpbaldwinjr.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/blame-obama-game\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T16:15:23","slug":"blame-obama-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/blame-obama-game\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blame Obama\u2019 game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s is now saying former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/28\/donald-trump-accuses-barack-obama-orchestrating-protests-leaks\">Obama is orchestrating the protests<\/a> against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no evidence, but we&#8217;ve come to expect Trump to make unsubstantiated claims.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s real purpose is&nbsp;to delegitimize the protests in the minds of his supporters. First he paints Obama as some kind of bogey man and says the protests are all because of him. Then Trump&#8217;s supporters can view protesters as some mindless army of Obama-directed drones, and no longer consider whether the protesters have some legitimate complaints that should be considered. (Yes, I see the irony.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a cheap mind game. But, sadly, it will be very effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s is now saying former president Obama is orchestrating the protests against Trump. There&#8217;s no evidence, but we&#8217;ve come to expect Trump to make unsubstantiated claims. Trump&#8217;s real purpose is&nbsp;to delegitimize the protests in the minds of his supporters. First he paints Obama as some kind of bogey man and says the protests are all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/28\/blame-obama-game\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Blame Obama\u2019 game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspired-by-crazy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}