{"id":76215,"date":"2026-07-17T13:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/trump-has-declared-war-on-elections-in-the-name-of-protecting-them-austin-sarat\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:55:28","slug":"trump-has-declared-war-on-elections-in-the-name-of-protecting-them-austin-sarat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/trump-has-declared-war-on-elections-in-the-name-of-protecting-them-austin-sarat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump has declared war on elections in the name of protecting them | Austin Sarat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s Orwellian speech on Thursday was just the latest instance of his denialism. It is up to us to resist<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday night, Donald Trump did it again, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2026\/07\/politics\/annotated-transcript-trump-speech-us-election-vis\/\">trashing another American tradition with his primetime address<\/a> from the White House\u2019s East Room about election integrity. Other presidents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehousehistory.org\/speeches-in-the-white-house\">have used<\/a> such speeches in times of national emergency, to announce major new policies designed to improve Americans\u2019 lives or to honor American traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Not Trump.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/17\/trump-speech-election-denialism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president\u2019s Orwellian speech on Thursday was just the latest instance of his denialism. It is up to us to resist On Thursday night, Donald Trump did it again, trashing another American tradition with his primetime address from the White House\u2019s East Room about election integrity. Other presidents have used such speeches in times of &#8230; <a title=\"Trump has declared war on elections in the name of protecting them | Austin Sarat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/17\/trump-has-declared-war-on-elections-in-the-name-of-protecting-them-austin-sarat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump has declared war on elections in the name of protecting them | Austin Sarat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}