{"id":19147,"date":"2025-08-23T20:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19147"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:39:36","slug":"opinion-the-sydney-sweeney-saga-shows-why-republicans-keep-winning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19147","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Sydney Sweeney Saga Shows Why Republicans Keep Winning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, in another corner of the internet, a bunch of conservative women started doing what appears to be actual Nazi salutes on Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nebraska-republican-nazi-salute-haile-mcanally-2108503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">though some deny it<\/a>). In many ways, it highlighted how ridiculous the \u201cgood genes\u201d controversy was; as we saw during&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/internet\/jubilee-debate-video-fascist-participant-roils-internet-rcna220303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Medhi Hasan\u2019s Jubilee episode<\/a>, when right-wing influencers want to say they\u2019re Nazi sympathizers, they don\u2019t exactly use invisible ink. But it also served as a reminder: Here were people doing an actually egregious thing, and Democrats didn\u2019t have the tools to make it stick. Indeed, Democrats have tried for years to tie the genuinely extreme, not-just-irritating views of the far right to the rest of the Republican Party, and most of the time, it fails.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/08\/08\/sydney-sweeney-republicans-win-media-ecosystem-00497761\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/08\/08\/sydney-sweeney-republicans-win-media-ecosystem-00497761<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, in another corner of the internet, a bunch of conservative women started doing what appears to be actual Nazi salutes on Instagram (though some deny it). In many ways, it highlighted how ridiculous the \u201cgood genes\u201d controversy was; as we saw during Medhi Hasan\u2019s Jubilee episode, when right-wing influencers want to say they\u2019re Nazi sympathizers, they don\u2019t exactly use invisible ink. But it also served as a reminder: Here were people doing an actually egregious thing, and Democrats didn\u2019t have the tools to make it stick. Indeed, Democrats have tried for years to tie the genuinely extreme, not-just-irritating views of the far right to the rest of the Republican Party, and most of the time, it fails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/08\/08\/sydney-sweeney-republicans-win-media-ecosystem-00497761<\/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":[1262,509,506,189],"class_list":["post-19147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-democrats","tag-politics","tag-republicans","tag-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147","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=19147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19150,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19147\/revisions\/19150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}