{"id":147,"date":"2025-11-25T20:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:47:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:47:42","slug":"a-patron-saint-of-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/politics\/a-patron-saint-of-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Patron Saint of the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;27px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">MAY 18, 2016<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>If That\u2019s His Real Name<\/h3>\n<p>In the May 12 Reader there is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2016\/may\/11\/letters\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2016\/may\/11\/letters\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1764186832350000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1capU1vVRFB3cW5RbN88fB\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter titled \u201cPatron Saint of the Republican Party,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by someone who signs himself Daniel Smiechowski. It\u2019s a crazy letter. In it, he compares Trump to Hitler and says we Trump voters are haters and we\u2019re going to bring down ashes of annihilation on the country, and a bunch of other nutty stuff.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the name Smiechowski \u2014 there should be an acute accent mark on the initial S, by the way \u2014 it brought back memories of my youth, which was spent for several years in a Pollack neighborhood in East St. Louis, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>That name looked familiar. The root of it is \u015bmiech. The word in Polish, it\u2019s a noun that means laughter, or laugh. And \u015bmiechoff means laughable. In other words, Mr. Smiechowski is some sort of clown or comedian or baffoon. That\u2019s what his name means. So, if that\u2019s his real name, maybe he comes by his craziness naturally. Maybe it\u2019s hereditary. But that\u2019s what \u015bmiech means.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Smiechowski, when Trump gets voted into office, I don\u2019t know what you\u2019ll do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name withheld<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY 18, 2016 If That\u2019s His Real Name In the May 12 Reader there is\u00a0a letter titled \u201cPatron Saint of the Republican Party,\u201d\u00a0by someone who signs himself Daniel Smiechowski. It\u2019s a crazy letter. In it, he compares Trump to Hitler and says we Trump voters are haters and we\u2019re going to bring down ashes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannytri.org\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}