{"id":163974,"date":"2024-12-06T13:15:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163974"},"modified":"2024-12-05T18:18:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T23:18:45","slug":"weekend-open-thread-526","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=163974","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-163975\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?resize=300%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?resize=500%2C250&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?resize=600%2C300&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Threat-to-Democracy-Donald-Trump-won-the-popular-vote.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the propaganda backfires&#8230; The traditional media, Democrats, and others portrayed Donald Trump as a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221;. Trump and his supporters were portrayed as extremists, with the former wanting to be a dictator and the latter &#8220;being a part of a cult&#8221;. Then the election came and the threat to democracy ended up winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the propaganda backfires&#8230; The traditional media, Democrats, and others portrayed Donald Trump as a &#8220;threat to democracy&#8221;. Trump and his supporters were portrayed as extremists, with the former wanting to be a dictator and the latter &#8220;being a part of a cult&#8221;. Then the election came and the threat to democracy ended up winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-GEK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}