{"id":14127,"date":"2026-01-16T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14127"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:39:42","slug":"what-they-need-is-a-marinus-van-der-lubbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14127","title":{"rendered":"What They Need Is A Marinus van der Lubbe. . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2026\/01\/trump-admits-he-s-itching-cancel-midterm\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Trump Admits He\u2019s Itching To Cancel Midterm Elections<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Finally, under a heading Reuters euphemistically called, \u201cMANAGING MIDTERM EXPECTATIONS, there was this explicit confession that Trump thinks there should not be a midterm election: \u201cThe president expressed frustration\u201d that Republicans could lose power after the midterms, Reuters wrote. Then this: \u201c&#8217;It&#8217;s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don&#8217;t win the midterms,&#8217; Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that &#8216;when you think of it, we shouldn&#8217;t even have an election.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That was the end of the article.<\/p>\n<p>None of this is normal&#8230;a president of the United States saying openly that he thinks there shouldn&#8217;t be another election. This should be a headline everywhere, even in the local shopper saver. But our legacy news media keeps treating it like it&#8217;s normal. And so they sell their country, and everyone in it, out.<\/p>\n<p>If stone could shed tears of grief every tombstone in Arlington Cemetery would be crying now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Crooks and Liars&#8230; Trump Admits He\u2019s Itching To Cancel Midterm Elections Finally, under a heading Reuters euphemistically called, \u201cMANAGING MIDTERM EXPECTATIONS, there was this explicit confession that Trump thinks there should not be a midterm election: \u201cThe president expressed frustration\u201d that Republicans could lose power after the midterms, Reuters wrote. Then this: \u201c&#8217;It&#8217;s some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,279],"class_list":["post-14127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-our-feckless-news-media","tag-staring-into-the-abyss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14128,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions\/14128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}