{"id":17389,"date":"2025-09-16T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17389"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:59:00","slug":"disagreement-is-not-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=17389","title":{"rendered":"Disagreement is not evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/16\/disagreement-is-not-evil\/\">https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/16\/disagreement-is-not-evil\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>in a working democracy. My fellow Republicans lose the argument when they call our political adversaries schoolyard names like \u201cDemon-rats.\u201d Progressives might be more credible if they would dial back the hyperbole. Donald Trump is not Hitler \u2014 not even close. Nor does the President represent the \u201cend of democracy,\u201d Gov. Pritzker. Like the idiots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/davidblaska.com\/2025\/09\/16\/disagreement-is-not-evil\/ in a working democracy. My fellow Republicans lose the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":11779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-blaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17390,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17389\/revisions\/17390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}