{"id":6428,"date":"2016-08-29T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2016-08-29T00:01:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T05:01:32","slug":"politics-life-and-the-inseparability-of-the-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6428","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS, LIFE, AND THE INSEPARABILITY OF THE TWO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Brooks and Charlie Rose Talk Politics, Life, and the Inseparability of the Two<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to Diana Bridgman for sending the following video my way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/charlierose.com\/videos\/28575\">https:\/\/charlierose.com\/videos\/28575<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A few notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why Trump is a fragile narcissist.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>How Trump is different than the quiet, but self-confident Iraqi veterans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTrump pollutes our moral atmosphere in which we raise our kids.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump is the \u201cwrong answer to the right question.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Teddy Roosevelt had a much better national and masculine vision for men than Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberals want to expand government to increase equality. Conservatives want to shrink government to expand freedom. In American history, there is a third option.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Government has become more of a profession and is no longer a vocation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Two ways to govern: authoritarianism and allowing the political process to work. Many are disgusted by the messiness and compromise of the latter, so they would gladly embrace the former.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump is like Aaron Burr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This interview ends with a poignant self-reflection by David Brooks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks and Charlie Rose Talk Politics, Life, and the Inseparability of the Two Thanks to Diana Bridgman for sending the following video my way. https:\/\/charlierose.com\/videos\/28575 A few notes: Why Trump is a fragile narcissist. How Trump is different than the quiet, but self-confident Iraqi veterans. \u201cTrump pollutes our moral atmosphere in which we raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6431,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6428\/revisions\/6431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}