{"id":490273,"date":"2010-03-30T15:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.okcupid.com\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2010-03-30T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:33:41","slug":"the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-%e2%80%98big-tent%e2%80%99-can-be-too-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490273","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Are Doomed, or How A \u2018Big Tent\u2019 Can Be Too Big"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again in American politics, Republicans have voted as a unit to frustrate our disorganized Democratic majority. No matter what&#8217;s on the table, a few Democrats will peel away from the party core; meanwhile, all Republicans will somehow manage to stay on-message. <\/p>\n<p>Thus, they caucus block us.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Articles noting this phenomenon anecdotally appear [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time and again in American politics, Republicans have voted as a unit to frustrate our disorganized Democratic majority. No matter what&#8217;s on the table, a few Democrats will peel away from the party core; meanwhile, all Republicans will somehow manage to stay on-message. Thus, they caucus block us. . . . Articles noting this phenomenon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}