{"id":32878,"date":"2024-04-02T13:08:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32878"},"modified":"2024-04-02T13:10:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T17:10:32","slug":"opinion-trump-is-financially-ruining-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32878","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Trump Is Financially Ruining the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/31cottle1-bkmp-facebookJumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"124\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">How do you build a strong party when your money is also going to a candidate\u2019s legal bills?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/31\/opinion\/trump-fundraising.html\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">Opinion | Trump Is Financially Ruining the Republican Party<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>from the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Rarely has a political party been more desperately in need of a leader who can calm the waters, unify the feuding factions and charm the money men and women. Instead, Republicans have fallen in line behind a guy who has zero loyalty to the party, who cares only how it can serve him and who would rather strip it for parts than invest a nickel in its general well-being.<br><br>This deep into the Trump era, people can\u2019t say they weren\u2019t warned.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you build a strong party when your money is also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1517,255,57,72],"class_list":["post-32878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-gop","tag-ratfuckers","tag-usa","tag-usa-usa-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32882,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32878\/revisions\/32882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}