{"id":231211,"date":"2026-04-24T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/echoes-of-the-past-the-peril-in-demonizing-political-opponents\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:15:13","slug":"echoes-of-the-past-the-peril-in-demonizing-political-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/echoes-of-the-past-the-peril-in-demonizing-political-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Echoes of the Past &#8211; The Peril in Demonizing Political Opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[FrontPageAfrica] When critics are likened to dogs or cockroaches, history reminds us of the dangerous consequences that can follow.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604230542.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[FrontPageAfrica] When critics are likened to dogs or cockroaches, history reminds us of the dangerous consequences that can follow. Read more on AllAfrica.com South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa Liberia News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,54251,15871,1107,257,12554,36155,6378,254],"class_list":["post-231211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demonizing","tag-echoes","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-opponents","tag-peril","tag-political","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}