{"id":2779,"date":"2018-07-18T17:34:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2018-07-18T17:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:35:51","slug":"how-to-steal-an-election-in-broad-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"How to Steal an Election in Broad Daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But instead, since Jan. 20, 2017, Trump has sent unequivocal signals to those who rig elections that they will not be punished. In fact, he has openly embraced and spoken highly of authoritarian strongmen across the globe \u2014 from China\u2019s Xi Jinping and the Philippines\u2019s Rodrigo Duterte to Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin and Turkey\u2019s Recep Tayyip Erdogan. While many Western observers were busy condemning sham elections in Turkey and Russia, Trump picked up the phone and congratulated both leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/05\/21\/how-to-steal-an-election-in-broad-daylight\/\">How to Steal an Election in Broad Daylight \u2013 Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the 21st century, strongmen have learned that it\u2019s easier to stay in power by rigging elections than by not holding them at all. Right now, those who rig elections are outfoxing not only their own citizens but the international community as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But instead, since Jan. 20, 2017, Trump has sent unequivocal signals to those who rig elections that they will not be punished. In fact, he has openly embraced and spoken highly of authoritarian strongmen across the globe \u2014 from China\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}