{"id":112066,"date":"2017-01-22T17:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112066"},"modified":"2017-01-22T17:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T01:19:55","slug":"who-backs-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=112066","title":{"rendered":"Who Backs Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/BBtuN#selection-4737.0-4745.134\">Peggy Noonan writes<\/a>: Normally a new president has someone backing him up, someone publicly behind him. Mr. Obama had the mainstream media\u2014the big broadcast networks, big newspapers, activists and intellectuals, pundits and columnists of the left\u2014the whole shebang. He had a unified, passionate party. Mr. Trump in comparison has almost nothing. The mainstream legacy media oppose him, even hate him, and will not let up. The columnists, thinkers and magazines of the right were mostly NeverTrump; some came reluctantly to support him. His party is split or splitting. The new president has gradations of sympathy, respect or support from exactly one cable news channel, and some websites.<br \/>\nHe really has no one but those who voted for him.<br \/>\nDo they understand what a lift daily governance is going to be, and how long the odds are, with so much arrayed against him, and them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peggy Noonan writes: Normally a new president has someone backing him up, someone publicly behind him. Mr. Obama had the mainstream media\u2014the big broadcast networks, big newspapers, activists and intellectuals, pundits and columnists of the left\u2014the whole shebang. 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