{"id":1189,"date":"2026-01-12T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/heather-cox-richardson-trump-is-acting-like-putin-the-feckless-maga-gop-needs-to-stop-him\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:33:42","slug":"heather-cox-richardson-trump-is-acting-like-putin-the-feckless-maga-gop-needs-to-stop-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/heather-cox-richardson-trump-is-acting-like-putin-the-feckless-maga-gop-needs-to-stop-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Cox Richardson: Trump is acting like Putin&#8230;The feckless MAGA GOP needs to STOP him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of the shocking U.S. capture of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, renowned historian and Substack superstar Heather Cox Richardson is back with Nicolle on \u201cThe Best People\u201d bringing her unique capacity to explain our current state of play through a historically tinted lens. As Trump\u2019s actions abroad rattle the post-World War II international order, Heather warns of a political era that adheres more to the strongman politics of autocratic leaders like Vladimir Putin than it ever has before. Together, Cox Richardson and Nicolle trace an evolving list of national concerns: a president in clear decline, a Congress unwilling to act, and a Republican Party abandoning its core principles in real time.MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.Same mission. New name.\u00bb Subscribe to MS NOW: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@msnowMS NOW is the go-to destination for domestic and international breaking news, and best-in-class opinion journalism.\u00a0For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: https:\/\/www.ms.now\/#trump #maduro #republicans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against the backdrop of the shocking U.S. capture of President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, renowned historian and Substack superstar Heather<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}