{"id":23296,"date":"2016-11-11T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23296"},"modified":"2018-07-31T18:46:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T23:46:34","slug":"dont-worry-trumps-hyperbole-is-meaningless-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/dont-worry-trumps-hyperbole-is-meaningless-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t worry, Trump&#8217;s hyperbole is meaningless. Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2016\/11\/NYT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/files\/2016\/11\/NYT.jpg?resize=318%2C571\" alt=\"nyt\" width=\"318\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23297\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case the point is not clear, read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump\u2019s anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and he was merely using this language as bait to catch masses of followers, and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is ready to make a political move.<\/p>\n<p>A sophisticated commenter credited Trump with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on racist and sexist rhetoric, saying \u201cYou can\u2019t expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like this.  It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look In case the point is not clear, read: Trump\u2019s anti-Semitism, racism, sexism, was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and he was merely using this language as bait to catch masses of followers, and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is ready to make a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/dont-worry-trumps-hyperbole-is-meaningless-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t worry, Trump&#8217;s hyperbole is meaningless. Right?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5046],"tags":[772,1525,964],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-63K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30067,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23296\/revisions\/30067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}