{"id":806,"date":"2004-01-11T19:30:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-11T23:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2004-01-11T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2004-01-11T23:30:16","slug":"who-was-this-if-not-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Who was this, if not George W Bush?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>&#8220;I have taken the rudder into my own hannds; my course is set straight and I am guidingyou to glorious times. Those who wish to help me are heartily welcome; whoever opposes me I will smash. There is only one master here and I am her. I am responsible onlty to God and my own consciencer. You can always count on my fatherly benevolence, but revolutionary sentiments will be shattered against my unbending will.&#8221;<\/blockquote>Actually, it is Diederich, the hero of <em>Der Unterthan<\/em>, one of Heinrich Mann&#8217;s satires on Wilhelmine Germany.\n\n<p>I had been discussing in a rambling and desultory way, leaning against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmon.org\">The Whiskey Bar<\/a>, what kind of Germany the present Washington regime reminds me of. It&#8217;s certainly not the Third Reich; not at all. But there is a gamy flavour of the Second Reich around. Pulling a nice quote out of <em>The Proud Tower<\/em> isn&#8217;t exactly doing real research to back my theory, but it is astonishing how well the tone of that speech, and much of its substance, fits the current rhetoric. Now all I need is to learn the German for &#8220;bring them on!&#8221;.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have taken the rudder into my own hannds; my course is set straight and I am guidingyou to glorious times. Those who wish to help me are heartily welcome; whoever opposes me I will smash. There is only one &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=806\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}