{"id":17049,"date":"2026-08-19T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17049"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:04:37","slug":"pigs-fly-lifelong-dem-alan-dershowitz-on-leaving-his-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=17049","title":{"rendered":"Pigs fly &#8211; Lifelong Dem Alan Dershowitz on leaving his Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-base-2-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Dershowitz\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Dershowitz\">Dershowitz<\/a>, an emeritus law professor at Harvard, author, and out spoken liberal. He re-registered in 2024 as an Independent and this year joined the Republican Party. Stunning turnabout as he rejects the socialism and antisemitism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018I\u2019ve given up\u2019: Life-long Democrat Alan Dershowitz explains why he left radical party\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0cyYC_n3TNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dershowitz, an emeritus law professor at Harvard, author, and out spoken liberal. He re-registered in 2024 as an Independent and this year joined the Republican Party. Stunning turnabout as he rejects the socialism and antisemitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-economics-and-politics","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17050,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17049\/revisions\/17050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}