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Trump is implementing multi decade right wing fantasies in many fronts. The idea that we can't achieve anything is limiting yourself when you're in a political arena. To win, like Trump, when you get power you have to attack on many fronts, cultural, capital, legal, and approach it as a zero sum scorched earth war where norms are another obstacle in your way.


You weren’t already doing that? You guys literally changed a dictionary definition to make a conservative appointee look bad: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/merriam-webster-changed-def...

Trump, a democrat himself, is simply using the multi-front strategy he already knew.


thats a wild take... isnt this exactly the purpose of a dictionary: to reflect the words used in general language usage?


Right, the definition should reflect general usage. Did the general usage here just coincidentally change days after a Republican appointee used a word in a hearing? That’s a heck of a coincidence! No, what happened was that liberals used their control over putatively neutral institutions like M-W to advance their position in a political dispute.


I'm very curious how you happened to have, seemingly at the ready, a cite to a 5.5-year-old Fox News piece.


I have a very good memory for anything I’ve read.




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