{"id":4097,"date":"2024-03-01T08:42:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2024-03-01T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:42:42","slug":"youre-gonna-make-me-work-for-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4097","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Gonna Make Me Work for This?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"412\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA434.jpg\" alt=\"You're Gonna Make Me Work for This?\" class=\"wp-image-4098\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA434.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JPA434-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that these have not been the best of times for the Michigan Republican Party. They&#8217;ve recently experienced statewide losses, a leadership crisis, diminishing donations, infighting, actual fighting, scandal, and general dysfunction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the upcoming election, it is understandable how Michigan Democrats might be tempted to run on a platform of &#8220;we&#8217;re not them.&#8221;&nbsp;But voters&nbsp;\u2014 at least the undecided ones, the ones who actually sway elections \u2014 need something more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to point to what you&#8217;re against \u2014 it takes effort to thoughtfully consider and then articulate what you&#8217;re for. That&#8217;s what worked for Reagan. That&#8217;s what worked for Obama. We&#8217;ll see if&nbsp; Michigan Democrats figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s fair to say that these have not been the best of times for the Michigan Republican Party. They&#8217;ve recently experienced statewide losses, a leadership crisis, diminishing donations, infighting, actual fighting, scandal, and general dysfunction. For the upcoming election, it is understandable how Michigan Democrats might be tempted to run on a platform of &#8220;we&#8217;re [&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-4097","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\/4097","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=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}