{"id":59249,"date":"2018-05-07T18:06:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=59249"},"modified":"2018-05-11T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:05:15","slug":"new-category-extremier-than-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=59249","title":{"rendered":"New category: Extremier than Extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; possibly simple-minded, but offered to our mentor JM Berger &#8212; includes a horseshoe &#038; a neat paradox, too ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s example:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOP Senate candidate that Trump called to vote against claims he&#39;s &quot;Trumpier than Trump&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DY3vahzOQn\">https:\/\/t.co\/DY3vahzOQn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z1URpZp0j9\">pic.twitter.com\/z1URpZp0j9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/993483364723249153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Trumpier than Trump<\/strong>. Okay..<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s generalize from here, and diagam this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/beyond-extreme.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/beyond-extreme.png 553w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/beyond-extreme-300x91.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Extremier than the Extreme.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve seen this. I&#8217;m pretty sure ISIS was <strong>AQier than AQ<\/strong> in the day, and that even earlier, there was a splinter group within AQ that was &#8220;more extrem&#8221;. Might have been <strong>Zarqawi<\/strong>, in which case our two examples collapse into one..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extremier than the Extreme&#8221; &#8212; within its own extreme context, it can be one helluva claim to make!<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>While we&#8217;re on the subject..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the oft-noted <strong>Horseshoe effect<\/strong>, whereby opposite expremes come to resemble one another:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/horseshoe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59250\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one, <strong>Revolutionary > Dictator  > Dictator<\/strong> is well known because of the frequency with which Revolutionaries come to resemble the Dictators they overthrew.<\/p>\n<p>A concatenation of horseshoes of this sort would give you <strong>Revolution > Dictatorship > Dictatorship > Dictatorship<\/strong> <em>ad nauseam<\/em>, with a Dictatorship currently in power, and a Revolution constantly brewing.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and by the way, an intriguing paradox:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moderate-immoderate.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moderate-immoderate.png 553w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/moderate-immoderate-300x81.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; possibly simple-minded, but offered to our mentor JM Berger &#8212; includes a horseshoe &#038; a neat paradox, too ] . Today&#8217;s example: GOP Senate candidate that Trump called to vote against claims he&#39;s &quot;Trumpier than Trump&quot; https:\/\/t.co\/DY3vahzOQn pic.twitter.com\/z1URpZp0j9 &mdash; The Hill (@thehill) May 7, 2018 Trumpier than Trump. Okay.. ** [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1314,483,897,319,706,1307,840,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-donald-trump","category-extremists","category-jm-berger-2","category-map","category-model","category-moderate","category-paradox","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59249"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59267,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59249\/revisions\/59267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}