{"id":4489,"date":"2017-11-07T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T02:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2017-11-07T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:51:58","slug":"oh-now-you-want-to-avoid-a-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/oh-now-you-want-to-avoid-a-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, NOW you want to “avoid a culture war”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Democrats are angry that Trump keeps throwing them off of their new “Better Deal” campaign with flareups about social issues. They’re worried that things like transsexual bathrooms are proving to be unpopular with voters. They’re worried that the Alt-Right and the Alt-Light are stretching the Overton Window wider than the southern border. The linked article notes…<\/p>\n

”\u00a0Whether it was his response to the Charlottesville white nationalist march or his condemnation of NFL players who knelt during the anthem to protest police brutality, Trump forced Democrats onto the battlefield of his choosing.”<\/p>\n

Maybe the Democrats should have thought this through a little better before grabbing their pile of chips and going all-in on Black Lives Matter, gender-is-a-spectrum, and\u00a0 “So DIE already, whitey”.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article182495486.html<\/p>\n

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So Democrats are angry that Trump keeps throwing them off of their new “Better Deal” campaign with flareups about social issues. They’re worried that things like transsexual bathrooms are proving to be unpopular with voters. They’re worried that the Alt-Right and the Alt-Light are stretching the Overton Window wider than the southern border. The linked article notes…<\/p>\n

”\u00a0Whether it was his response to the Charlottesville white nationalist march or his condemnation of NFL players who knelt during the anthem to protest police brutality, Trump forced Democrats onto the battlefield of his choosing.”<\/p>\n

Maybe the Democrats should have thought this through a little better before grabbing their pile of chips and going all-in on Black Lives Matter, gender-is-a-spectrum, and\u00a0 “So DIE already, whitey”.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article182495486.html<\/p>\n

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