{"id":597963,"date":"2026-05-07T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597963"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:52:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:52:28","slug":"when-california-republicans-run-against-democrats-theyre-running-against-the-government-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=597963","title":{"rendered":"When California Republicans Run Against Democrats, They\u2019re Running Against The Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hiltonn-chirla-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt='In a light blue shirt and a dark blue blazer, standing outdoors behind a lectern that says \"California Department of Government Efficiency,\" Steve Hilton makes an announcement about corruption.' \/>Non-governmental organizations frequently aren&#8217;t non-governmental. Instead, they&#8217;re government cut-outs, state funding moved to private bank accounts for private activity.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hiltonn-chirla-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"When California Republicans Run Against Democrats, They\u2019re Running Against The Government\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-governmental organizations frequently aren&#8217;t non-governmental. Instead, they&#8217;re government cut-outs, state funding moved to private bank accounts for private activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/597951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}