{"id":132143,"date":"2016-12-01T22:38:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T05:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/the-cult-of-personality-trump-edition.html"},"modified":"2016-12-11T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:31:30","slug":"the-cult-of-personality-trump-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/the-cult-of-personality-trump-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cult of Personality, Trump Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big &quot;look at me, look at me, aren&#39;t I great&quot; rallies on the campaign road? Sure, that&#39;s politics as usual, more or less. <\/p>\n<p>Big, happy, snarky, victory gloating on election night? Yeah, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Giant Victory Rally with screaming, hand-raising audiences an smirking gloats  about &quot;How Much I Won By&quot; and &quot;How Crooked And Sad the Press Is&quot;, three and a half weeks <i>after<\/i> the election?<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s not normal. Except in banana republics and former Soviet states. And that&#39;s more than a bit creepy.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a modern Leni Riefenstahl, I&#39;d be applying for a job with the incoming administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/trump-reprises-campaign-with-victory-rally-822558275873'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/pPPnFVTIZGaJgd7a_yhfdmnnPyO5qSfzpl2qh_2vS_ooNYQfrxj_KHbMSmd4IkwKFYRg0dq2q5hC6nzLCx6oBitYST6mKWRyG0k1qFzp6wMxTrvuzWjcSW1JpBfPnSUMVFqwzBnBrbQEF-xMwYnZ3qtn8GksxPnJD6rCAF1YIJGP=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow\/watch\/trump-reprises-campaign-with-victory-rally-822558275873'>Trump reprises campaign with victory rally<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nChris Hayes talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump&#8217;s first public speech since winning the presidency, the first in a series of campaign-style rallies in which Trump gloated about his victory and insulted the media.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/UaUsE7NDAqW'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big &quot;look at me, look at me, aren&#39;t I great&quot; rallies on the campaign road? Sure, that&#39;s politics as usual, more or less. Big, happy, snarky, victory gloating on election night? Yeah, whatever. Giant Victory Rally with screaming, hand-raising audiences an smirking gloats about &quot;How Much I Won By&quot; and &quot;How Crooked And Sad the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/the-cult-of-personality-trump-edition.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cult of Personality, Trump Edition&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135706,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/oh-look-donald-trump-taking-yet-another-election-victory-lap.html","url_meta":{"origin":132143,"position":0},"title":"Oh, look, Donald Trump is taking yet another election victory lap","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Dec-17 6:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/942854056162332677 I mean, it's not even the anniversary of the election (which would be goofy enough). 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