{"id":5319,"date":"2011-02-02T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2011-02-02T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:33:52","slug":"mormons-the-communitarian-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/mormons-the-communitarian-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Mormons, the communitarian conservatives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/82634\/preliminary-breakdown-the-gop-contenders\">Center-Left<\/a> Jon Chait asserts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The entry of Jon Huntsman into the Republican primary field has created strong competition for what has to be a tiny number of Republican voters who want a nominee who&#8217;s both sane and Mormon&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One could observe that culturally Mormons descend from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/82634\/preliminary-breakdown-the-gop-contenders\">New England Yankees<\/a>, and so do not tend to have the same affect as Southern or Southern inflected politicians. On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezra_Taft_Benson\">Ezra Taft Benson<\/a> was a member of the John Birch Society, so it isn&#8217;t as if Mormon conservatism has necessarily been milquetoast. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Center-Left Jon Chait asserts: The entry of Jon Huntsman into the Republican primary field has created strong competition for what has to be a tiny number of Republican voters who want a nominee who&#8217;s both sane and Mormon&#8230;. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/mormons-the-communitarian-conservatives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}