{"id":63601,"date":"2022-10-21T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=63601"},"modified":"2022-10-21T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T10:44:44","slug":"weaponized-untruths-has-the-gop-lost-its-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=63601","title":{"rendered":"Weaponized (un)truths: Has the GOP \u2018lost its mind\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\n<p>Robert Draper&#8217;s &#8220;Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind&#8221; focuses exclusively on the GOP during the crucial 18-month period after January 6 and vastly adds to our understanding of the Trump era. Far-right representatives Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Matt Gaetz are part of a new breed of Republican party fighting with their GOP elders. The subtitle of Draper&#8217;s book \u2014 emphasizing when, not how \u2014 Trump-inspired elected officials helped the former president solidify his grip over the Republican party is as important as understanding what has happened to the party.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s Playbook Deep Dive, Playbook co-author Ryan Lizza unwinds Draper&#8217;s chronicle of what has happened to the Republican party, and America, through his character-driven account of the people and events shaping the extremes of American politics today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/10\/21\/pbdd-10-21-2022-00062333\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics Robert Draper&#8217;s &#8220;Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind&#8221; focuses exclusively on the GOP during the crucial 18-month period after January 6 and vastly&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":63602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}