{"id":69151,"date":"2019-01-12T12:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=69151"},"modified":"2019-01-12T12:11:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:11:24","slug":"new-years-resolution-see-more-movies-featuring-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/01\/new-years-resolution-see-more-movies-featuring-the-rock.html","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Resolution: See More Movies Featuring “The Rock”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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A 1931 Ku Klux Klan procession in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Klan was very public in earlier years, but has, until recently, been relatively silent. It may surprise some to know that, in its early years, the Klan was linked with the Democratic Party and was strongly anti-Republican.
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There are some very embarrassing people associated with the Republican Party. \u00a0And no, I\u2019m not referring here to the most obvious one. \u00a0(And please don\u2019t assume that I\u2019m saying that the Democrats are without blemish; I am, after all, a life-long and very serious political conservative who has had a strong commitment to free market economics since his teens. \u00a0I can scarcely endorse today\u2019s Democratic Party.)<\/p>\n

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Consider, for example, this appalling story:<\/p>\n

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\u201cLocal Texas GOP rejects ousting vice chair over his faith\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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And there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHolly Richardson: The GOP and its problem with women\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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(I consider Mia Love\u2019s loss of her congressional seat one of the very worst results of the 2018 election.)<\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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And there\u2019s this:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018All of a sudden Trump became president and all the hateful people just came out\u2019: Utah refugees talk about life since the 2016 election\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I posted some items yesterday about Rep. Steve King (R-IA), at the end of a blog entry entitled \u201cCharacter is Destiny.\u201d<\/a> \u00a0Here is some more about him:<\/p>\n

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The first is from Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who happens to be black:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy are Republicans accused of racism? Because we\u2019re silent on things like this.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The second is from the conservative National Review<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI Guess Steve King Never Played the\u00a0Civilization<\/i>\u00a0Video Game\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The third is from CNN\u2019s token conservative, S. E. Cupp:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSE Cupp: Steve King \u2018is a cancer on the country'\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Whatever your feelings about Mr. Donald J. Trump, there\u2019s no question that his presidential term has, thus far, not been precisely a relaxing one. \u00a0And Sturm und Drang<\/em> isn\u2019t all coming (directly, anyway) from Mr. Trump. \u00a0While I\u2019m not even remotely a fan of his, there is also definitely a phenomenon that can justly be ridiculed as Trump Derangement Syndrome:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2018Good Evening,\u2019 Says President Trump, Drawing Immediate Flurry Of Fact Checks\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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But we can still laugh. \u00a0The New Yorker\u2019s<\/em> Andy Borowitz leans reliably left and anti-Trump (which is a quite separate and distinct thing), but he\u2019s still funny:<\/p>\n

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\u201cKavanaugh Offers to Pay for Wall by Recycling His Empties\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cSarah Huckabee Sanders Offers to Lie for Free During Shutdown\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cPelosi Says She Will Skip Trump and Negotiate Directly with Putin\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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But there is hope on the horizon:<\/p>\n

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\u201cDwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson: The Celebrity Conservatives Need\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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