{"id":92469,"date":"2026-02-27T07:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92469"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:15:27","slug":"once-people-are-wedded-to-a-strongman-they-will-cling-to-him-ever-more-tightly-as-his-behavior-becomes-more-and-more-erratic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92469","title":{"rendered":"\u201conce people are wedded to a strongman, they will cling to him ever more tightly as his behavior becomes more and more erratic.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-25-2026\">https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-25-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis loyalty is in part to demonstrate their own devotion to the cause, and in part to justify their own attacks on those the strongman has given them permission to hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/february-25-2026 \u201cThis loyalty is in part to demonstrate their own devotion to the cause, and in part to justify their own attacks on those the strongman has given them permission to hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92470,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92469\/revisions\/92470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}