{"id":186632,"date":"2021-06-01T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=203277"},"modified":"2021-06-01T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:50:36","slug":"theyre-not-conservatives-theyre-extremists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/01\/theyre-not-conservatives-theyre-extremists\/","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Not Conservatives, They\u2019re Extremists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Freedom Caucus is routinely described as conservative, by its members, by the mainstream media, by Wikipedia. The caucus, which draws together 45 Republican Party members of the House of Representatives, is the furthest to the right of any major political formation in the United States. The most extreme and flamboyant politicians in America,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/theyre-not-conservatives-theyre-extremists\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/01\/theyre-not-conservatives-theyre-extremists\/\">They&#8217;re Not Conservatives, They&#8217;re Extremists<\/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\/2021\/06\/01\/theyre-not-conservatives-theyre-extremists\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Freedom Caucus is routinely described as conservative, by its members, by the mainstream media, by Wikipedia. The caucus, which draws together 45 Republican Party members of the House of Representatives, is the furthest to the right of any ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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\/186632"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186667,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186632\/revisions\/186667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}