{"id":31765,"date":"2025-08-10T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=31765"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:39:20","slug":"beto-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=31765","title":{"rendered":"Beto is right"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"671\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/beto.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/beto.jpg 860w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/beto-768x599.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke probably is an underdog for the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2028 nomination for president. But, as of now, he would be my first choice. I wish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NetrootsNation\/videos\/1095197178698498\/\">this video<\/a> would go viral. It&#8217;s Beto speaking at the Netroots Nation meeting in New Orleans on August 8, 2025. He is not afraid to use the word <em>fascist<\/em> (which is the right word). He says that, if we are to avoid fascism in America, regaining some power in the 2026 midterm elections is our only hope.<\/p>\n<p>The video in the link is 23 minutes long. All of it is worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke probably is an underdog for the Democratic Party&#8217;s 2028 nomination for president. But, as of now, he would be my first choice. I wish this video would go viral. It&#8217;s Beto speaking at the Netroots Nation meeting in New Orleans on August 8, 2025. He is not afraid to use the word fascist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=31765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beto is right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31770,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31765\/revisions\/31770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}