{"id":3768,"date":"2022-03-11T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2022-03-11T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:53:00","slug":"where-did-a-candidate-like-robert-regan-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"Where Did a Candidate Like Robert Regan Come From?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA333.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"419\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA333.jpg\" alt=\"Where Did a Candidate Like Robert Regan Come From?\" class=\"wp-image-3769\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA333.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/JPA333-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m loathe to give Robert \u201cRJ\u201d Regan&nbsp;any more media oxygen than he&#8217;s already gotten. But he&nbsp;is likely going to be my state representative in a couple months, so I felt compelled to say something.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regan&#8217;s recent &#8220;ha-ha, amirite guys?&#8221; quip about advising his three daughters that &#8220;if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it&#8221; made national news this week. Unfortunately, it fully tracks with other miserable things he has said and done while running for public office these past few years. I won&#8217;t list them. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgemi.com\/michigan-government\/robert-regan-under-fire-rape-comments-also-espoused-qanon-violence\"><em>Bridge\u00a0Michigan<\/em> has a summary<\/a> if you&#8217;re morbidly curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the hell did it come to this? Well, it&#8217;s not too difficult to figure out. There are lots of ways to describe Regan&#8217;s behavior, but &#8220;Trumpian&#8221; may be the most accurate. (Another guy I&nbsp;don&#8217;t really want to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;with any more media oxygen.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m loathe to give Robert \u201cRJ\u201d Regan&nbsp;any more media oxygen than he&#8217;s already gotten. But he&nbsp;is likely going to be my state representative in a couple months, so I felt compelled to say something.&nbsp; Regan&#8217;s recent &#8220;ha-ha, amirite guys?&#8221; quip about advising his three daughters that &#8220;if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back [&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-3768","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\/3768","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=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}