{"id":53356,"date":"2022-10-09T12:47:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=53356"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:24:28","slug":"orwellian-chuckle-press-freedom-in-full-squeak-replayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2022\/10\/orwellian-chuckle-press-freedom-in-full-squeak-replayed.html","title":{"rendered":"<font size=\"+2\"><em>Orwellian Chuckle<\/em><\/font> <br><font size=\"+3\"><strong>Press Freedom in Full Squeak<\/strong> <em>(replayed)<\/em><\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From a lifetime ago, though in fact it&#8217;s only been six years . . . and now what?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/11\/diversifying-diversity-oh-please.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"1024\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/magazine\/2022\/10\/10\/country-after-second-trump-term\/?utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere_trending_now&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=alert&amp;location=alert\">What will happen if Trump wins again?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it would be the end of the republic,\u201d says Princeton University professor<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Sean Wilentz, one of the historians President Biden consulted in August about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/08\/10\/biden-us-historians-democracy-threat\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\">America\u2019s teetering democracy.<\/a> \u201cIt would be a kind of overthrow from within. \u2026 It would be a coup of the way we\u2019ve always understood America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a lifetime ago, though in fact it&#8217;s only been six years . . . and now 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