{"id":294776,"date":"2026-05-23T23:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294776"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T03:37:16","slug":"barney-franks-consistent-message-moderate-or-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=294776","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank&#8217;s Consistent Message: Moderate or Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barney Frank believed his party is heading toward a political cliff, and he deserves great credit for using his last breath to warn it. However, Democrats don&#8217;t seem inclined to heed him, unlike the last time he issued a similar warning, in that long-ago era when this remarkable political figure was still in the prime of his life&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2026\/05\/23\/barney_franks_consistent_message_moderate_or_die_700355.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>Barney Frank believed his party is heading toward a political cliff, and he deserves great credit for using his last breath to warn it. However, Democrats don&#8217;t seem inclined to heed him, unlike the last time he issued a similar warning, in that long-ago era when this remarkable political figure was still in the prime&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":294777,"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\/294776"}],"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=294776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/294777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=294776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}