{"id":1612718,"date":"2022-08-18T09:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612718"},"modified":"2022-08-18T09:42:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:42:31","slug":"former-cia-director-says-republicans-are-most-nihilistic-and-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-cia-director-says-republicans-are-most-nihilistic-and-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA Director Says Republicans Are Most \u2018Nihilistic\u2019 And \u2018Dangerous\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-cia-director-says-republicans-are-most-nihilistic-and-dangerous%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1612718&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2006-05-18T120000Z_1920141514_PBEAHUNNWAQ_RTRMADP_3_HAYDEN-scaled-e1660828073609.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden, claimed in a tweet Wednesday that Republicans hold the most \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cnihilistic\u201d views.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Times editor Edward Luce first tweeted Aug. 12 that \u201cnothing\u201d came close to the alleged extreme ideology of modern Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve covered extremism and violent ideologies around the world over my career,\u201d Luce tweeted. \u201cHave never come across a political force more nihilistic, dangerous &#038; contemptible than today\u2019s Republicans. Nothing close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayden, who served as CIA director under former President George W. Bush, retweeted the post Aug. 17 and stated, \u201cI agree. And I was the CIA Director.\u201d The tweet has been re-shared over 24,000 times and liked over 84,700 times as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"rev-more-content\">\n<p>\u201cThe View\u201d co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/sunny-hostin-republicans-extremists-democrats-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sunny Hostin<\/a> made a similar claim in May that Democrats are centrists while Republicans are \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Republican Party is really the party of insurrectionists, it\u2019s the party of white supremacy, and it\u2019s also an extremist party,\u201d Hostin said at the time. \u201cIf you look at the state, there\u2019s a new report that shows just how extensively the far-right groups and the Republican Party have intertwined. More than 1 in 5 Republican state legislators in the U.S. are affiliated with far-right groups and that works out to about 22% of all Republican state legislators. That is what the party is today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A March CBS News\/YouGov <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/democrats-branded-weak-joe-biden-republicans-extreme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll<\/a> found 54% of respondents said they would use the word \u201cextreme\u201d when describing the Republican Party, while 51% of Democrats described Democrats as \u201cweak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The poll sampled 2,041 adults in the U.S., and had a +-2.5% margin of error. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/06\/republicans-turning-massive-swing-state-solidly-red\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Republicans Are Turning A Massive Swing State Solidly Red)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Gen. Michael Hayden, claimed in a tweet Wednesday that Republicans hold the most \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cnihilistic\u201d views.Financial Times editor Edward Luce first tweeted Aug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}