{"id":5685,"date":"2017-01-29T11:37:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T16:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=5685"},"modified":"2017-01-29T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T17:00:23","slug":"i-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/i-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"I was wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think that President Trump could possibly be the horrific disaster that folks were afraid he would be. That he&#8217;d be himself &#8212; a vulgar, self-serving narcissist &#8212; was obvious, but he could not possibly be as bad as the pearl-clutchers and hand-wringers were afraid he&#8217;d be. <\/p>\n<p>I owe an apology to the pearl clutchers and hand wringers. I am sorry: you were right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-holds-calls-with-putin-leaders-from-europe-and-asia\/2017\/01\/28\/42728948-e574-11e6-a547-5fb9411d332c_story.html?utm_term=.9bd34a08cd65\">Trump orders ISIS plan, talks with Putin and gives Bannon national security role<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/27\/donald-trump-executive-order-immigration-full-text\">Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order on immigration \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the full text<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/24\/us\/politics\/keystone-dakota-pipeline-trump.html\">Trump Revives Keystone Pipeline Rejected by Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/opinion\/2016\/12\/15\/trump-cabinet-who-who-homophobia\/9UDr8MnXIQAxjO369qzT0J\/story.html\">Trump&#8217;s Cabinet: A who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s who of homophobia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think that President Trump could possibly be the horrific disaster that folks were afraid he would be. 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