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For a long time weir was at home with Shakespeare’s three weird sisters in Macbeth. Its roots went back to Germanic warden, to become; that is, a weoird person was some one who had the power to make things, even very strange things, come into being.
Then a weird thing happened. Weird entered politics, and it seems to be making strange things happen. According to Politico, a new phase began around July 23rd when democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota applied it to Trump and Vance. It caught on:
“As this simple and quintessentially Midwestern description of Trump and Vance catches on, it marks a notable rhetorical shift — away from Biden’s apocalyptic, high-minded messaging toward a more gut-level vernacular that may better capture how many voters react to far-right rhetoric of the kind Vance in particular trades in. “
Smart move? Or a further debasement of our civic discourse?
What do you think?
P.S. Jessica Bennett has good things to say about the term in her July 31st essay in the New York Times.
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For a long time weir was at home with Shakespeare’s three weird sisters in Macbeth. Its roots went back to Germanic warden, to become; that is, a weoird person was some one who had the power to make things, even very strange things, come into being.
Then a weird thing happened. Weird entered politics, and it seems to be making strange things happen. According to Politico, a new phase began around July 23rd when democratic Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota applied it to Trump and Vance. It caught on:
“As this simple and quintessentially Midwestern description of Trump and Vance catches on, it marks a notable rhetorical shift — away from Biden’s apocalyptic, high-minded messaging toward a more gut-level vernacular that may better capture how many voters react to far-right rhetoric of the kind Vance in particular trades in. “
Smart move? Or a further debasement of our civic discourse?
What do you think?
P.S. Jessica Bennett has good things to say about the term in her July 31st essay in the New York Times.
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