{"id":4465,"date":"2021-03-26T15:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:58:56","slug":"when-it-comes-to-elections-reforms-the-left-are-the-ones-busting-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/when-it-comes-to-elections-reforms-the-left-are-the-ones-busting-norms\/","title":{"rendered":"When it comes to elections reforms, the left are the ones busting norms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It has become commonplace among the political left to call out the political right for breaking democratic norms. \u201cThe Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy,\u201d as MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes recently put it. Their accusations run the gamut. They say Republicans are imposing minority rule by using the filibuster to block Democratic legislation. They portray the right\u2019s anxieties about illegal immigration levels as veiled racism, and portray the right\u2019s efforts to decrease the number of abortions is an un-democratic attack on reproductive freedom. The left has accused the Grand Old Party of assaulting the U.S. Postal Service in hopes of \u201ccrippling it\u201d so that it can sell it off to private firms. And when the political right uses populist and religious language, that too, they proclaim, is symptomatic of its lurch towards authoritarianism…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has become commonplace among the political left to call out the political right for breaking democratic norms. \u201cThe Republican Party Is Radicalizing Against Democracy,\u201d as MSNBC\u2019s Chris Hayes recently put it. Their accusations run the gamut. They say Republicans are imposing minority rule by using the filibuster to block Democratic legislation. They portray the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-real-clear-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1a1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}