{"id":878,"date":"2025-02-02T23:09:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T23:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2025-02-02T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T23:09:35","slug":"donald-trumps-florida-project-lily-lynch-new-statesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/donald-trumps-florida-project-lily-lynch-new-statesman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDonald Trump\u2019s Florida project\u201d &#8211; Lily Lynch (New Statesman)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cFlorida is America\u2019s soft underbelly and its dead end, where all the country\u2019s darkness is illuminated by the omnipresent sun. \u201cFlorida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world\u2019s detritus,\u201d the American writer Russell Banks wrote in 2022. \u201cIt\u2019s where you go when your prospects elsewhere have ended.\u201d But this reduction of Florida to national punchline is at least partly a product of blue-state cultural elitism, transforming a state with a population of more than 23 million into a receptacle for socially sanctioned classism. The Trump insurgency, organised from Florida and fuelled by the aspirations of immigrants, the interests of the very rich and the resentments of the working class, is the state\u2019s dignity fighting back\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/international-politics\/2025\/01\/donald-trump-florida-project-mar-a-lago\">https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/international-politics\/2025\/01\/donald-trump-florida-project-mar-a-lago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFlorida is America\u2019s soft underbelly and its dead end, where all the country\u2019s darkness is illuminated by the omnipresent sun. \u201cFlorida from its beginnings has served as a catch basin for the world\u2019s detritus,\u201d the American writer Russell Banks wrote in 2022. \u201cIt\u2019s where you go when your prospects elsewhere have ended.\u201d But this reduction&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}