{"id":22593,"date":"2026-07-04T21:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22593"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:08:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:08:52","slug":"the-second-trump-election-broke-something-in-america-w-heather-cox-richardson-focus-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22593","title":{"rendered":"The Second Trump Election Broke Something in America (w\/ Heather Cox Richardson) | Focus Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Fourth of July, many Americans have trouble feeling proud about America when its leader is running&nbsp;around acting like an immoral jackass and a large percentage of Americans are cheering him on or making pathetic excuses.&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 Second Trump Election Broke Something in America (w\/ Heather Cox Richardson) | Focus Group\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xBE68EKHq2c?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>This Fourth of July, many Americans have trouble feeling proud about America when its leader is running around acting like an immoral jackass and a large percentage of Americans are cheering him on or making pathetic excuses. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xBE68EKHq2c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,2193,431,221,1471,1507,170,619],"class_list":["post-22593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-competence","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-independence","tag-morality","tag-trump","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593","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=22593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22594,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22593\/revisions\/22594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}