{"id":9494,"date":"2022-11-06T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T12:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=9494"},"modified":"2022-11-06T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T12:34:40","slug":"the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=9494","title":{"rendered":"The GOP\u2019s Nefarious Mythologies Have Become a Dire Problem for Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s manna is mythology. The<br \/>\nRepublican Party understands this, and the Democrats\u2014at least at the institutional<br \/>\nlevels\u2014seemingly do not. Closing this gap, and learning to tell a great story<br \/>\nabout the country, is critical in outcompeting the GOP and, possibly, keeping<br \/>\nour democracy alive. The political right has a familiar<br \/>\nstory that it repeats over and over again: America was already perfect and<br \/>\ngreat in the 1950s and \u201960s&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/168379\/right-wing-myths-2022-midterms\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u2019s manna is mythology. The Republican Party understands this, and the Democrats\u2014at least at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-scaled.jpeg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-1536x1024.jpeg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-2048x1365.jpeg",2048,1365,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/9494-the-gops-nefarious-mythologies-have-become-a-dire-problem-for-democracy-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}