{"id":27001,"date":"2018-06-06T16:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=27001"},"modified":"2018-08-08T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T09:56:40","slug":"a-to-z-of-historical-blunders-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=27001","title":{"rendered":"A to Z of Historical Blunders: Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fthe-a-to-z-of-historical-blunders-e-is-for-ego%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p>This week, our dial will oscillate between Mussolini\u2019s Italy and Trump\u2019s America. Once upon a time, Mussolini said, \u201cDemocracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy. You in America will see that someday.\u201d Just like President Donald Trump has a beautiful plan for the United States, Mussolini had a beautiful plan for Italy. One can only wonder if Trump has decided that he can succeed where Mussolini failed. If that seems far-fetched then consider the similarities in their leadership journeys and then decide for yourself.\u00a0\u00a0The article on which this episode is based can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldfilibuster.com\/egotism-is-egregious-if-itrsquos-your-only-weapon-for-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the A to Z of Historical Blunders, the show that reminds us about the dangers of history repeating itself. This week, our dial will oscillate between Mussolini\u2019s Italy and Trump\u2019s America. Once upon a time, Mussolini said, \u201cDemocracy is beautiful in theory; in practice, it is a fallacy. You in America will see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10362],"tags":[10363,5763,10636],"class_list":["post-27001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-to-z-of-historical-blunders","tag-berni-dwan","tag-donald-trump","tag-mussolini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28068,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27001\/revisions\/28068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}