{"id":13327,"date":"2020-07-13T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13327"},"modified":"2020-07-13T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:15:09","slug":"hough-rails-against-renaming-dcs-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13327","title":{"rendered":"Hough Rails Against Renaming DC\u2019s Football Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sen. Michael Hough (R-Frederick and Carroll) has gone on a Twitter tear on the decision to rename the Washington Redskins something else. I guess it goes with his repeated Trumpian bashing of Montgomery and Frederick Counties for not opening more quickly. He also derides NBC4 for no longer using the former team name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notwithstanding his ritualized attack on liberals, I don&#8217;t see anything especially conservative in choosing to follow a leader who believes against all evidence that he can will the pandemic away and who embraces racist white identity politics as part of his desperate attempt to change the subject. One shouldn&#8217;t confuse a personality cult with ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/F734FEFF-8199-4DF9-B590-6DD78D9EE0E4-600x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/F734FEFF-8199-4DF9-B590-6DD78D9EE0E4-600x1024.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/F734FEFF-8199-4DF9-B590-6DD78D9EE0E4-176x300.jpeg 176w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/F734FEFF-8199-4DF9-B590-6DD78D9EE0E4-768x1311.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/F734FEFF-8199-4DF9-B590-6DD78D9EE0E4-900x1536.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/F734FEFF-8199-4DF9-B590-6DD78D9EE0E4.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"875\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/284A5D6F-C4C5-4C53-89C8-5843B3EA0DDE-875x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/284A5D6F-C4C5-4C53-89C8-5843B3EA0DDE-875x1024.jpeg 875w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/284A5D6F-C4C5-4C53-89C8-5843B3EA0DDE-256x300.jpeg 256w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/284A5D6F-C4C5-4C53-89C8-5843B3EA0DDE-768x899.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/284A5D6F-C4C5-4C53-89C8-5843B3EA0DDE.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/66C32108-0F83-43DA-A76A-90FD9A7CAFFA-582x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/66C32108-0F83-43DA-A76A-90FD9A7CAFFA-582x1024.jpeg 582w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/66C32108-0F83-43DA-A76A-90FD9A7CAFFA-171x300.jpeg 171w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/66C32108-0F83-43DA-A76A-90FD9A7CAFFA-768x1351.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/66C32108-0F83-43DA-A76A-90FD9A7CAFFA-873x1536.jpeg 873w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/66C32108-0F83-43DA-A76A-90FD9A7CAFFA.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Michael Hough (R-Frederick and Carroll) has gone on a Twitter tear on the decision to rename the Washington Redskins something else. I guess it goes with his repeated Trumpian bashing of Montgomery and Frederick Counties for not opening more quickly. He also derides NBC4 for no longer using the former team name. Notwithstanding his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13327\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hough Rails Against Renaming DC\u2019s Football Team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[371],"class_list":["post-13327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","tag-michael-hough"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3sX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13336,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13327\/revisions\/13336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}