{"id":1257356,"date":"2023-10-10T05:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=297753"},"modified":"2023-10-10T05:50:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:50:57","slug":"politics-the-cults-we-will-always-have-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/10\/10\/politics-the-cults-we-will-always-have-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics: The Cults We Will Always Have With Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an October 6 interview with CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour, 2016 presidential also-ran Hillary Clinton doubled down on her critique of the voters who subsequently rejected her in favor of Donald Trump. Back then,\u00a0 half of them were &#8220;deplorables&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic&#8221; &#8212; but the other half were, at least potentially, wise and  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/10\/politics-the-cults-we-will-always-have-with-us\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/10\/politics-the-cults-we-will-always-have-with-us\/\">Politics: The Cults We Will Always Have With Us<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/10\/10\/politics-the-cults-we-will-always-have-with-us\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an October 6 interview with CNN&#8217;s Christiane Amanpour, 2016 presidential also-ran Hillary Clinton doubled down on her critique of the voters who subsequently rejected her in favor of Donald Trump. Back then,\u00a0 half of them were &#8220;deplorabl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258677,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257356\/revisions\/1258677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}