{"id":116,"date":"2011-02-16T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T00:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-02-18T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:59:05","slug":"losing-the-plot-mccarthyism-the-universal-solvent-of-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Losing The Plot: McCarthyism The Universal Solvent Of Evil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a time in the life of every political concept when it loses touch completely with reality, when its cliche-strength overpowers whatever descriptive power it once held.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/?p=60\">Others have whined before<\/a>, but for me the day has now come:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-121\" title=\"mccarthyismvaccinetruth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mccarthyismvaccinetruth2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"596\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mccarthyismvaccinetruth2.jpg 638w, http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mccarthyismvaccinetruth2-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There comes a time in the life of every political concept when it loses touch completely with reality, when its cliche-strength overpowers whatever descriptive power it once held. Others have whined before, but for me the day has now come:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mccarthyism","category-new-mccarthyism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themanwholostchina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}