{"id":11199,"date":"2018-02-22T22:34:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/wayne-lepierres-speech-a-reminder-of-the-paranoia-that-gave-us-trump"},"modified":"2018-02-22T22:34:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:34:47","slug":"wayne-lepierres-speech-a-reminder-of-the-paranoia-that-gave-us-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/wayne-lepierres-speech-a-reminder-of-the-paranoia-that-gave-us-trump","title":{"rendered":"Wayne LePierre&#8217;s speech: a reminder of the paranoia that gave us Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne LaPierre followed the NRA\u2019s customary post-mass shooting moves in his CPAC speech \u2013 and at times sounded like Trump\u2019s twin<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdnmobilelab.com\/smarticles\/gun-control-cpac\/index.html\">How will gun control be discussed at a conference of conservatives this week? Follow developments in an experimental format for mobile<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>The National Rifle Association (NRA) perfected Trumpism before Trump, attacking the mainstream media for lies and hypocrisy, bouncing from one culture war battle to another, using each new outrage to raise the bar for the next.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/nra-wayne-lapierre-gun-control-cpac-speech-2018\">NRA head breaks silence to attack gun control advocates: 'They hate individual freedom'<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/wayne-lepierres-speech-a-reminder-of-the-paranoia-that-gave-us-trump\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne LaPierre followed the NRA&rsquo;s customary post-mass shooting moves in his CPAC speech &ndash; and at times sounded like Trump&rsquo;s twin<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdnmobilelab.com\/smarticles\/gun-control-cpac\/index.html\">How will gun control be discussed at a conference of conservatives this week? Follow developments in an experimental format for mobile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National Rifle Association (NRA) perfected Trumpism before Trump, attacking the mainstream media for lies and hypocrisy, bouncing from one culture war battle to another, using each new outrage to raise the bar for the next.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/nra-wayne-lapierre-gun-control-cpac-speech-2018\">NRA head breaks silence to attack gun control advocates: &#8216;They hate individual freedom&#8217;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/wayne-lepierres-speech-a-reminder-of-the-paranoia-that-gave-us-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11266,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11199\/revisions\/11266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheguns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}