{"id":33218,"date":"2024-10-31T14:14:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33218"},"modified":"2024-10-31T14:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:14:43","slug":"the-era-of-endless-reboots-in-political-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/31\/the-era-of-endless-reboots-in-political-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The Era of Endless Reboots&#8230;.  In Political &#8220;Thought&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bray talks about contemporary and past conversations he has had about <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/p\/program-will-now-enter-shutdown-mode\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the Republican camps<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve written before that I had a conversation just after the 2016 election in which I was asked how I could support someone who was going to put my own friends and family in the camps, man, he\u2019s gonna put us in the fucking camps!<\/p>\n<p>Eight years later, and after four years of a Trump presidency in which no one went to the camps, Trump can\u2019t be allowed to return to the White House because, guess what, he\u2019ll send us all to the camps&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A mere eight years?  Ah, gentle reader, I lost a real life friendship <em>twenty years ago<\/em> when I scoffed at the idea my friend (and another person who stood at my wedding) extolled:  George W. Bush was going to put all the Jews in camps (the fellow&#8217;s wife is Jewish, and we attended their Jewish wedding, albeit not a traditional Jewish wedding as she was marrying outside the faith).<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to now, and one of my soon-to-be former coworkers has expressed concern that Donald Trump is going to deport his foreign-born, green-card-holding wife.  He is far too young to remember the Jewish roundup in the second second Bush administration.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all so tiresome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Bray talks about contemporary and past conversations he has had about the Republican camps: I\u2019ve written before that I had a conversation just after the 2016 election in which I was asked how I could support someone who was going to put my own friends and family in the camps, man, he\u2019s gonna put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33219,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions\/33219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}