{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "John Kasich would make sense as the nominee of a Christian Democratic party, on European lines. (If you know only one Christian...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/132134670678/", "html": "<p>John Kasich would make sense as the nominee of a <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_democracy\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Democratic</a> party, on European lines. (If you know only one Christian Democratic politician, it\u2019s Angela Merkel.)</p><p>But the Republican Party of America is not, and has never been a Christian Democratic party. It\u2019s been within one realignment of such, I think Bush the Younger got elected intending to make it, but the attempt failed and it\u2019s no longer even that close.</p><p>Guy\u2019s running like the last ten years never happened. Shame, and when you consider how it implies he\u2019s trying to live out a carefully planned rise-to-power fantasy conceived decades ago, verges on poignant.</p><p>Could be worse, Jim Webb was running like it was still fucking <i>1992</i>.<br/></p>"}