{"id":150974,"date":"2026-08-27T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/27\/flailing-gop-needs-a-boogeyman-for-midterms-enter-islamophobia-opinion-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:30:00","slug":"flailing-gop-needs-a-boogeyman-for-midterms-enter-islamophobia-opinion-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/27\/flailing-gop-needs-a-boogeyman-for-midterms-enter-islamophobia-opinion-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Flailing GOP needs a boogeyman for midterms. Enter Islamophobia. | Opinion &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxPbER0U0NVUjVCd2NOSjFXYlNTb1dDNHMwY1h1cmdoOF92NEg5MjZja3p1Q3RITTktTWR4M2pwLXZWY1NWUEZNNWZld1hKYnE0b3JzOVh6U1pBamRZc0VkaE1jWXF2aWM1akNiQVZaTHAyTFo1U1VTX3BfQXN3RGZoeDFDMFFkWE1JcWNrbHlWYWx6VWJyZ0tVVmpZZW1EZERsQWNlUGkyOWtZZGwtTjdjSmFRMnJ4YjNJTnNjUUlQTQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Flailing GOP needs a boogeyman for midterms. Enter Islamophobia. | Opinion<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">USA Today<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flailing GOP needs a boogeyman for midterms. Enter Islamophobia. | Opinion&nbsp;&nbsp;USA Today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}