{"id":294714,"date":"2026-05-22T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294714"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:37:14","slug":"grifters-activism-and-thomas-massie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294714","title":{"rendered":"Grifters, Activism and Thomas Massie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a column about Thomas Massie. Not really. But he does figure into the analysis, especially since the voters of his Kentucky congressional district decided they&#8217;d had enough of him and voted him out of office in the Republican primary election Tuesday night&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/05\/22\/grifters_activism_and_thomas_massie_700311.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: Real Clear Politics<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a column about Thomas Massie. Not really. But he does figure into the analysis, especially since the voters of his Kentucky congressional district decided they&#8217;d had enough of him and voted him out of office in the Republican primary election Tuesday night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17867],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294714"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=294714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}