{"id":16512,"date":"2025-02-25T12:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16512"},"modified":"2025-02-25T12:47:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T12:47:40","slug":"the-republican-partys-npc-problem-and-ours-the-ezra-klein-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16512","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Party\u2019s NPC Problem \u2014 and Ours | The Ezra Klein Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Republicans in Congress are not acting like a co-equal branch designed to be a check on power grabs from the president. They are acting like a non-person character, or a non-person Congress.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Republican Party\u2019s NPC Problem \u2014 and Ours | The Ezra Klein Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lckYPwQj_NM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in Congress are not acting like a co-equal branch designed to be a check on power grabs from the president. They are acting like a non-person character, or a non-person Congress. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lckYPwQj_NM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,542,429,431,660,1173,694,813,222,373,1034,130,968],"class_list":["post-16512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-founders","tag-power","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-power","tag-republican","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16514,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16512\/revisions\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}