Using the term "weird" to label a certain political party and its candidates/ideas/policies is typical political nonsense. As citizens, we expect more of the people we elect to office than to stoop to the level of the mundane. Our democratic republic is at stake! Let's act like it.
Using the term "weird" to label a certain political party and its candidates/ideas/policies is typical political nonsense. As citizens, we expect more of the people we elect to office than to stoop to the level of the mundane. Our democratic republic is at stake! Let's act like it.
But acting like it hasn't gotten us anywhere. In middle school school, the kiss of death was classmates coalescing around the idea that a schoolmate was weird (accuracy optional). From then on, that schoolmate's school life became a living hell. It makes sense that for the perpetually immature Trump and his MAGA cult, the relatively weak appellation of "weird" (as opposed to more serious and accurate descriptions like authoritarian, dangerous, demagogue, illiberal) may be the ticket to possibly deprogramming some of them. "Weird" has the additional advantage of being a one syllable word. Kudos to Vance for being so weird that Dems finally thought of it.
Using the term "weird" to label a certain political party and its candidates/ideas/policies is typical political nonsense. As citizens, we expect more of the people we elect to office than to stoop to the level of the mundane. Our democratic republic is at stake! Let's act like it.
But acting like it hasn't gotten us anywhere. In middle school school, the kiss of death was classmates coalescing around the idea that a schoolmate was weird (accuracy optional). From then on, that schoolmate's school life became a living hell. It makes sense that for the perpetually immature Trump and his MAGA cult, the relatively weak appellation of "weird" (as opposed to more serious and accurate descriptions like authoritarian, dangerous, demagogue, illiberal) may be the ticket to possibly deprogramming some of them. "Weird" has the additional advantage of being a one syllable word. Kudos to Vance for being so weird that Dems finally thought of it.