{"id":300637,"date":"2026-08-11T18:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=300637"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:37:22","slug":"the-graham-platner-fiasco-proves-messiah-politics-is-no-alternative-to-a-failed-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=300637","title":{"rendered":"The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeet Heer<\/p>\n<p>Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that\u2019s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors.<\/p>\n<p>The post The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment appeared first on The Nation&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/politics\/graham-platner-lessons-political-establishment\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeet Heer Democratic leaders have rightfully lost credibility. But that\u2019s no excuse for political adventurers to seize the moment and pump up false saviors. The post The Graham Platner Fiasco Proves Messiah Politics Is No Alternative to a Failed Establishment appeared first on The Nation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300638,"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":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300637"}],"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=300637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=300637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}