{"id":85262,"date":"2016-01-14T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85262"},"modified":"2023-09-07T02:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:42:10","slug":"why-a-cuck-wont-vote-for-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85262","title":{"rendered":"Why He Won&#8217;t Vote For Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/14\/opinion\/campaign-stops\/why-i-will-never-vote-for-donald-trump.html?smid=tw-share\">Peter Wehner writes in the New York Times<\/a>: &#8220;During the course of this campaign he has repeatedly revealed his ignorance on basic matters of national interest \u2014 the three ways the United States is capable of firing nuclear weapons (by land, sea and air), the difference between the Quds Force in Iran and the Kurds to their west, North Korea\u2019s nuclear tests, the causes of autism&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Trump is precisely the kind of man our system of government was designed to avoid, the type of leader our founders feared \u2014 a demagogic figure who does not view himself as part of our constitutional system but rather as an alternative to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From where I stand, this is a good thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Wehner writes in the New York Times: &#8220;During the course of this campaign he has repeatedly revealed his ignorance on basic matters of national interest \u2014 the three ways the United States is capable of firing nuclear weapons (by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=85262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - 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