{"id":2692,"date":"2020-05-09T20:53:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2020-05-09T20:53:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:53:05","slug":"america-doesnt-want-another-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"America doesn\u2019t want another Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Trump\u2019s approach to the pandemic has been to crow about his administration\u2019s imaginary successes while blaming<\/a> governors for everything that\u2019s gone wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, he escalated his message, endorsing<\/a> the anti-stay-at-home protests cropping up across the country \u2014 specifically the protests in battleground states run by Democratic governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moments after Fox News aired a segment on the rallies, Trump tweeted<\/a> their rally cry against their governors: \u201cLIBERATE.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Fox News is trying to convince<\/a> Americans that there\u2019s a groundswell<\/a> of opposition<\/a> to these important measures, attempting to make small rallies look big and fringe attitudes look mainstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On air, they\u2019ve displayed images that make the protests seem significant. A first glance at the map below makes it look like a huge number of rallies have already happened, but they haven\u2019t. It\u2019s a double-whammy: The movement looks large and Fox encourages viewers to join.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

” The same images were used in the early days of the Tea Party, when Fox trumped up the rallies, describing them as part of a \u201crevolution\u201d and urging viewers to join.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Conservative groups are playing an important part, too. Three pro-gun groups are behind the largest Facebook group encouraging<\/a> the protests, according to an investigation by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Michigan, a group funded by Trump ally Education Secretary Betsy DeVos<\/a> helped get out the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 And the same Tea Party groups that were successful a decade ago are eager to join in<\/a>. ”  
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https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/4\/20\/21225016\/protests-stay-at-home-orders-trump-conservative-group-michigan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Trump\u2019s approach to the pandemic has been to crow about his administration\u2019s imaginary successes while blaming governors for everything that\u2019s gone wrong.
\nOn Friday, he escalated his message, endorsing the anti-stay-at-home protests cropping up across the country \u2014 specifically the protests in battleground states run by Democratic governors.<\/p>\n

Moments after Fox News aired a segment on the rallies, Trump tweeted their rally cry against their governors: \u201cLIBERATE.\u201d”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Fox News is trying to convince Americans that there\u2019s a groundswell of opposition to these important measures, attempting to make small rallies look big and fringe attitudes look mainstream.<\/p>\n

On air, they\u2019ve displayed images that make the protests seem significant. A first glance at the map below makes it look like a huge number of rallies have already happened, but they haven\u2019t. It\u2019s a double-whammy: The movement looks large and Fox encourages viewers to join.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

” The same images were used in the early days of the Tea Party, when Fox trumped up the rallies, describing them as part of a \u201crevolution\u201d and urging viewers to join.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Conservative groups are playing an important part, too. Three pro-gun groups are behind the largest Facebook group encouraging the protests, according to an investigation by the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

In Michigan, a group funded by Trump ally Education Secretary Betsy DeVos helped get out the word.<\/p>\n

And the same Tea Party groups that were successful a decade ago are eager to join in. “<\/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":[588,409,483,563,170],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-response","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}