{"id":3722,"date":"2021-12-03T05:52:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2021-12-03T05:52:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T10:52:40","slug":"michigan-2022-election-flowchart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"Michigan 2022 Election Flowchart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/JPA320.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/JPA320.jpg\" alt=\"Michigan 2022 Election Flowchart\" class=\"wp-image-3723\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/JPA320.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/JPA320-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We ignore at our own peril the continuing efforts of former President Trump to undermine laws and norms to claw his way back into power. He&#8217;s a demagogue in full-bullying mode, and a brief glance at history reveals the devastating consequences of letting somebody like that get their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, the paradox is that attention&nbsp;\u2014 any attention \u2014 is exactly what a demagogue desires. He will use any and all attention to skew, manipulate, and outright lie in order to create legitimacy for furthering his singular, self-serving agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A simple flowchart seemed like the best compromise to sound the alarm without feeding the monster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I realize, of course, that the most obvious topic for a Michigan editorial cartoonist this week would have been the mass shooting in Oxford. Please don&#8217;t construe me not addressing it as &#8220;now is not the time.&#8221; Now and every moment from now is exactly the time to discuss and find solutions for gun violence. We&#8217;ve been conditioned to believe that it is an intractable problem, and it&#8217;s not. I&#8217;m just too sad at the moment to come up with anything to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ignore at our own peril the continuing efforts of former President Trump to undermine laws and norms to claw his way back into power. He&#8217;s a demagogue in full-bullying mode, and a brief glance at history reveals the devastating consequences of letting somebody like that get their way. And yet, the paradox is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3724,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}