{"id":18630,"date":"2015-12-29T03:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T11:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18630"},"modified":"2015-12-29T03:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T11:03:49","slug":"the-6-worst-moments-in-u-s-politics-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/29\/the-6-worst-moments-in-u-s-politics-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"The 6 Worst Moments in U.S. Politics of 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is almost 2016 — just 3 days away — and best and worst lists, the '…est' lists will blare from radios, televisions and computers.  We will review all sorts of happenings from 2015.  Someone will undoubtedly try to knit some of them together with 20\/20 hindsight and say "we should have seen this or that coming".  So here's a start.<\/span><\/p>\n

So this list is, like all listicles, a contrivance. Here, “worst” can be seen as an equivalent to “most annoying” or “most aggravating” or “most please for the love of God can I go on Facebook for just five minutes without seeing this crap?<\/em>” With that said, please enjoy this quick-and-dirty recap of some of the worst moments in what was — for American politics, at least — an extremely no good year.<\/p>\n

1. Donald Trump’s ascendance<\/p>\n

AP\/John Locher<\/p>\n

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I have written so much<\/a><\/em> about Donald Trump over the past six months that the prospect of repeating myself fills me with a cold, gnawing dread. So let’s just say that while Trump has provided some moments of gonzo humor, as well as some decent schoolyard insults, his net effect on the GOP primary, and U.S. politics in general, has been overwhelmingly for the worse. What’s most upsetting about Trump, however, isn’t that he may be president (still a long-shot). It’s that somewhere out there is the next Trump, watching and learning from “the Donald’s” mistakes.<\/p>\n

Inserted from <\/span>Alternet<\/span><\/a>.  <\/span><\/strong>Click through for the other five.  I chose to highlight Trump because, with every utterance it seems his numbers increase.  And that<\/strong><\/em> is troubling to me.  Are there that many ill informed Americans that choose to worship at the altar of Trump?  I personally don't think that Trump will move into the White House, but just the thought of so many talking about voting for him . . . well, it blows my mind, and a mind is a terrible thing to waste.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is almost 2016 — just 3 days away — and best and worst lists, the '…est' lists will blare from radios, televisions and computers.  We will review all sorts of happenings from 2015.  Someone will undoubtedly try to knit some of them together with 20\/20 hindsight and say "we should have seen this or […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}