{"id":14182,"date":"2024-07-02T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2024-07-02T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T12:30:18","slug":"civics-the-democratic-party-awaits-its-gorbachev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=14182","title":{"rendered":"Civics: The Democratic Party Awaits Its Gorbachev"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/niall-ferguson-democratic-party-awaits-gorbachev\">Niall Ferguson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most impressive feature of Thursday\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/06\/27\/politics\/read-biden-trump-debate-rush-transcript\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debate<\/a>&nbsp;between Brezhnev and Andropov\u2014sorry, Trump and Biden\u2014is that anyone watching was in the least surprised by what it revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president is senile. The former president is a blowhard. Both these truths have been obvious for years. Yet somehow&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;editorial board, the hosts of&nbsp;<em>Pod Save America<\/em>, and numerous other eminent liberal authorities were shocked by what CNN broadcast from Atlanta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niall Ferguson The most impressive feature of Thursday\u2019s&nbsp;debate&nbsp;between Brezhnev and Andropov\u2014sorry, Trump and Biden\u2014is that anyone watching was in the least surprised by what it revealed. The president is senile. The former president is a blowhard. Both these truths have been obvious for years. Yet somehow&nbsp;The New York Times&nbsp;editorial board, the hosts of&nbsp;Pod Save America, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14183,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}