{"id":127662,"date":"2015-08-23T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T05:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/donald-trump-the-living-overton-window-shifter.html"},"modified":"2015-08-24T07:37:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T13:37:11","slug":"donald-trump-the-living-overton-window-shifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/donald-trump-the-living-overton-window-shifter.html","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: The Living Overton Window Shifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continued polling success of Donald Trump is beginning to spell more than how people react to a well-known person running for office. Instead, it&#39;s starting to be about the thrill of changing the Overton Window (what ideas are acceptable to discuss) in a time when people are feeling stressed about Other folk having a seat at the political table, and gut-pleasing proposals from some quarters are considered unspeakable.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Donald says stuff, and suddenly it&#39;s open (and, for other GOP candidates, obligatory) to make such thoughts part of the reasonable political discourse and worthy of consideration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/donald-trump-just-stopped-being-funny-20150821'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/bRMpQ8sF2JGrr4Hm-1MfaFiRjYXyCkPGPbkHNOrxo4_9Sdm7cV3zsFTUnlzVRgw4so1iB57CTO04tbpvJnAx6F_lF4dDCK1gD9fA1TStGXuBuBdUldhrg6zIOHX_Q42osey0JOrqZxQy0KacfbCg5_cmEC2npg109zwsYXfjQnRYUFGamgDJir9QV539maQbFAvP7PN9PodbMyHLS3BfmvYZmgfITIz0hDTL0WNSNJDZPA=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/donald-trump-just-stopped-being-funny-20150821'>Donald Trump Just Stopped Being Funny<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWin or lose, Trump&#8217;s campaign threatens to unleash the Great American Stupid\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Q9zFshKeKwv'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continued polling success of Donald Trump is beginning to spell more than how people react to a well-known person running for office. Instead, it&#39;s starting to be about the thrill of changing the Overton Window (what ideas are acceptable to discuss) in a time when people are feeling stressed about Other folk having a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/donald-trump-the-living-overton-window-shifter.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donald Trump: The Living Overton Window Shifter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129084,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/08\/donald-trump-says-asinine-un-american-things-again-no-247-in-a-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":127662,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump says asinine, un-American things again (No. 247 in a Series)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Dec-15 1:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm really waiting for him to suggest armbands to identify Muslims already in the country, to be followed by camps where we can \"concentrate them\" and keep them under surveillance.There seems to be no end to how far Trump is willing to ride this train, if only because he keeps\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130245,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/oppose-trump-but-let-him-speak.html","url_meta":{"origin":127662,"position":1},"title":"Oppose Trump &#8212; 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