{"id":97699,"date":"2016-05-30T10:01:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97699"},"modified":"2016-05-30T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:01:27","slug":"wsj-editor-trump-needs-to-be-destroyed-in-the-november-election-to-teach-gop-voters-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97699","title":{"rendered":"WSJ editor: Trump needs to be destroyed in the November election to teach GOP voters a lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/05\/wsj-editor-trump-needs-to-be-destroyed-in-the-november-election-to-teach-gop-voters-a-lesson\/#.V0x505Vo6a4.twitter\">NEWS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Appearing on CNN, an opinion page editor from the Wall Street Journal left no doubt how he feels about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying not only will he not vote for him, but that Trump needs to be crushed in the November election as a lesson to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed by host Fareed Zakaria if he was going to get behind Trump as the Republican nominee, conservative columnist Bret Stephens got right to the point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI most certainly will not vote for Donald Trump,\u201d Stephens began tersely. \u201cI will vote for the least left-wing opponent to Donald Trump and I want to make a vote that makes sure he is the biggest loser in presidential history since, I don\u2019t know, Alf Landon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then Stephens went off: \u201cIt\u2019s important that Donald Trump, or what he represents, this kind of quote \u2018ethnic conservatism or populism,\u2019 be so decisively rebuked that the Republican Party and the Republican voters will forever learn their lesson that they cannot nominate a man so manifestly unqualified to be president in any way, shape or form.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if Bret Stephens is similarly opposed to Israel being the Jewish state? Or is ethno-nationalism something only for Jews? <\/p>\n<p>I hope Donald Trump deports this Fifth Column in our midst. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS: Appearing on CNN, an opinion page editor from the Wall Street Journal left no doubt how he feels about presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying not only will he not vote for him, but that Trump needs to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97699\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neoconservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97700,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97699\/revisions\/97700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}