{"id":778,"date":"2015-11-20T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2015-11-20T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T14:39:47","slug":"have-trump-and-carson-jumped-the-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Have Trump and Carson &#8220;jumped the shark?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First let me invite everyone to take a listen to C-SPAN during Morning Journal. \u00a0If you were ever wondering who could support the GOP clowns, just listen. \u00a0It&#8217;s downright breathtaking. I guess we are sort of used to the D.C. beltway crowd and are immunized from the craziness of the rest of the country. So even though Trump and Carson express outrageous opinions that I cannot imagine anyone supporting, I am apparently wrong. \u00a0Trump just seems to thrive on this although Carson seems to be faltering at bit.<\/p>\n<p>But when Trump agreed that issuing ID cards to Muslims to identify their religion or closing the mosques was an effective way to manage terror, all bets were off. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t hear him advocating armbands to be issued to all Muslims, but you know that&#8217;s coming. \u00a0Just the country we need: \u00a0Nazi America. \u00a0Blame the Muslims for all of your problems. \u00a0Then round them up and do what, Trump? \u00a0We know that this will not end well. \u00a0Trump is dangerous because he is preying on the most ignorant among us. \u00a0 This is just nuts but beware, he will be the GOP Presidential candidate. \u00a0No doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to keep up with Trump for the most outrageous award, Carson compared the Syrian refugees to dogs. \u00a0And there was cheering when he made this statement. Those &#8220;good&#8221; Christians who have glommed to Carson as the next coming will have some explaining to do if they decide to support the notion that humans should be derogatorily compared to dogs.<\/p>\n<p>There is a book by Phillip Roth, The Plot Against America which is prophetic: With Trump in the Oval Office, we could expect our country to be upside down with prevailing racism and intolerance synchronized with isolationism and ignorance. \u00a0Is this what we should be looking forward to? \u00a0Help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First let me invite everyone to take a listen to C-SPAN during Morning Journal. \u00a0If you were ever wondering who could support the GOP clowns, just listen. \u00a0It&#8217;s downright breathtaking. I guess we are sort of used to the D.C. beltway crowd and are immunized from the craziness of the rest of the country. So even though Trump and Carson express outrageous opinions that I cannot imagine anyone supporting, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ben-carson","category-donald-trump"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}