{"id":21539,"date":"2026-02-18T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21539"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:00:20","slug":"where-have-the-dont-tread-on-me-republicans-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=21539","title":{"rendered":"Where Have the &#8216;Don&#8217;t Tread on Me&#8217; Republicans Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Many conservatives are embracing big government, from police-state immigration tactics to socialist economic policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were some true believers, but for the most part, don&#8217;t tread on me Republicans were just anti-Obama reactionaries who globbed on to whatever justification they could to complain about Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/01\/23\/where-have-the-dont-tread-on-me-republicans-gone\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/01\/23\/where-have-the-dont-tread-on-me-republicans-gone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many conservatives are embracing big government, from police-state immigration tactics to socialist economic policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were some true believers, but for the most part, don&#8217;t tread on me Republicans were just anti-Obama reactionaries who globbed on to whatever justification they could to complain about Obama. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2026\/01\/23\/where-have-the-dont-tread-on-me-republicans-gone\/<\/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":[221,561,1107,132,556,411,968,506,170],"class_list":["post-21539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-hypocrisy","tag-liars","tag-lies","tag-obama","tag-policy","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539","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=21539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21540,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21539\/revisions\/21540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}