{"id":43376,"date":"2026-04-16T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/16\/opinion-the-populism-numbers-game-doesnt-work-wsj\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:13:00","slug":"opinion-the-populism-numbers-game-doesnt-work-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/16\/opinion-the-populism-numbers-game-doesnt-work-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Populism Numbers Game Doesn\u2019t Work &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE1zT3N1UTczWWFobFJZNEkzMGMzNjZ4TXFNYnYwUmFQemZLNEcxVnFFVXBhZW9rSGlyZUJGenI4QnpVYjFMcklQSTBfSnhEU2lDaHNKaHJZdUZENkt5WENreTVRWVFpaFg5TWZ3WEdoSmdHRE9CakxfVHhiWVFpWG8?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | The Populism Numbers Game Doesn\u2019t Work<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">WSJ<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | The Populism Numbers Game Doesn\u2019t Work&nbsp;&nbsp;WSJ<\/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-43376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376","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=43376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}