{"id":41148,"date":"2017-04-06T23:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=41148"},"modified":"2017-04-06T23:33:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:33:59","slug":"new-york-city-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/04\/new-york-city-white-house.html","title":{"rendered":"New York City in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41149\" style=\"width: 597px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/NYC_Top_of_the_Rock_Pano.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41149\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-41149\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2017\/04\/NYC_Top_of_the_Rock_Pano-1024x232.jpg\" alt=\"Midtown Manhattan at dusk\" width=\"597\" height=\"135\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midtown Manhattan = Middle America! \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can add Mr. Trump\u2019s cruise-missile attack on the Syrian airbase as another arguably good thing that he\u2019s done. \u00a0(Along with, most notably, the Gorsuch nomination.) \u00a0Certainly I don\u2019t <em>lament<\/em> it. \u00a0We simply can\u2019t stand by while the Syrian regime uses poison gas on innocent civilians.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That said, I\u2019ve maintained\u00a0all along that Mr. Trump isn\u2019t a conservative but rather a reflexive and unreflective authoritarian nationalist whose positions will, sometimes, <em>coincide<\/em> with those of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s\u00a0something\u00a0for people like me, people\u00a0genuinely on the principled libertarian\/conservative right, to watch:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(21 March 2017): \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/445970\/beware-turn-new-yorkers\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cBeware a Turn to the New Yorkers\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(6 April 2017): \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/446500\/will-new-york-moderates-rule-world\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cWill the New York Moderates Rule the World?\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I fear that those who voted for Mr. Trump in the belief that they were supporting a conservative \u2014 unlike that horrible RINO\u00a0Mitt Romney (who, unlike Mr. Trump, has never been a major Democratic donor, let alone a registered Democrat, and who has never explained that he identifies more with Democrats than with Republicans) \u2014 may be disappointed with the passage of time. \u00a0And I also fear that Mr. Trump\u2019s remarkably low poll-ratings may foretell\u00a0enormous damage in the next two electoral cycles to the Republican Party and, thereby, to the genuine conservative cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>May my hopes not be realized.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 You can add Mr. Trump\u2019s cruise-missile attack on the Syrian airbase as another arguably good thing that he\u2019s done. \u00a0(Along with, most notably, the Gorsuch nomination.) \u00a0Certainly I don\u2019t lament it. \u00a0We simply can\u2019t stand by while the Syrian regime uses poison gas on innocent civilians. \u00a0 That said, I\u2019ve maintained\u00a0all along that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York City in the White House<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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