{"id":11098,"date":"2016-07-04T19:26:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T00:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11098"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T21:29:01","slug":"cultural-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=11098","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first:mt-0 last:mb-0\" dir=\"ltr\">One of the most astute observations of what Trump has to offer comes from JD Vance in The Atlantic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/07\/opioid-of-the-masses\/489911\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/07\/opioid-of-the-masses\/489911\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"first:mt-0 last:mb-0\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they\u2019ll realize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"first:mt-0 last:mb-0\" dir=\"ltr\">I think Trump has a cathartic release of anger and frustration. He has someone to blame. He has a simple solution that sounds great unless you bother to question if summoning unicorns actually can cure Aunt Sally&#8217;s meth addiction or if pouring billions of dollars into &#8220;the wall&#8221; would actually bring back mining jobs lost to automation. It&#8217;s not real, but the idea makes someone feel better for a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most astute observations of what Trump has to offer comes from JD Vance in The Atlantic: https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/07\/opioid-of-the-masses\/489911\/ &#8220;Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they\u2019ll realize it.&#8221; I think Trump has a cathartic release of anger and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[692,26,222],"class_list":["post-11098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-maga-2","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}