These are much more pedestrian ideas, but your piece really made me think about two particularly annoying turns of phrase of the Trump decade discourse, really just two versions of the same form of gaslighting:
One, the fact that the same people who spent 8 years calling a Chicago machine Democrat's very market friendly policies "Communism" then had the gall of coming up with "Trump derangement syndrome".
Two, the concoction of the phrase "Orange Man Bad" as just, the most idiotic way of turning criticism of Trump on its head as if somehow removing some words reveals that the person stating the obvious is the dumb one. Sure, let's curb carbon emissions because "climate change real". Sure, let's wear masks because "corona contagious". Sure, let's not drink that bottle because "cyanide poison".
Anyway, just some pedestrian thoughts that I needed to put in writing, and also, it seems like there's signs that we're finally past this era of particularly stultifying political discourse and we may be moving into one where at least we can call it as we see it.
These are much more pedestrian ideas, but your piece really made me think about two particularly annoying turns of phrase of the Trump decade discourse, really just two versions of the same form of gaslighting:
One, the fact that the same people who spent 8 years calling a Chicago machine Democrat's very market friendly policies "Communism" then had the gall of coming up with "Trump derangement syndrome".
Two, the concoction of the phrase "Orange Man Bad" as just, the most idiotic way of turning criticism of Trump on its head as if somehow removing some words reveals that the person stating the obvious is the dumb one. Sure, let's curb carbon emissions because "climate change real". Sure, let's wear masks because "corona contagious". Sure, let's not drink that bottle because "cyanide poison".
Anyway, just some pedestrian thoughts that I needed to put in writing, and also, it seems like there's signs that we're finally past this era of particularly stultifying political discourse and we may be moving into one where at least we can call it as we see it.