{"id":4364,"date":"2021-01-22T10:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/?p=4364"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T19:47:36","slug":"the-worst-thing-that-an-american-president-could-ever-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/22\/the-worst-thing-that-an-american-president-could-ever-do\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;the worst thing that an American president could ever do.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic&#8217;s Peter Nicholas writes in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2021\/01\/trump-leaves-white-house\/617758\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What I Saw at the White House on Trump\u2019s Last Day<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is the only president in American history who incited an insurrection against Congress that could have resulted in assassinations and hostage-taking and, conceivably, the cancellation of a free presidential election and the fracturing of a democracy,\u201d Michael Beschloss, the presidential historian, told me. \u201cThat\u2019s a fact, and it won\u2019t change in 50 years. It\u2019s very hard to think of a scenario under which someone might imagine some wonderful thing that Donald Trump did that will outshine that. He did, literally, the worst thing that an American president could ever do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My final editorial:<br \/>\nEnough wasted time, energy, and mass &#8211; unless there is happy news, like he commits suicide, this is the last I will write or quote about him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic&#8217;s Peter Nicholas writes in &#8220;What I Saw at the White House on Trump\u2019s Last Day&#8221; \u201cThis is the only president in American history who incited an insurrection against Congress that could have resulted in assassinations and hostage-taking and, conceivably, the cancellation of a free presidential election and the fracturing of a democracy,\u201d Michael &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/22\/the-worst-thing-that-an-american-president-could-ever-do\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,17,18,19],"tags":[567,3019],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-sergneri","4":"post-4364","6":"format-standard","7":"category-faits-divers","8":"category-politics","9":"category-thinking-about","10":"category-this-day-in-history","11":"category-trump","12":"post_tag-donald-trump","13":"post_tag-insurrection"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4369,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4364\/revisions\/4369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sergneri.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}