Following this article, and this reader-response note, more responses on the most accurate way to name the political challenge of these times.
Pale’ocracy. A reader recommends this term, “because of its varied and versatile potential definitions:”
--First, the Greek word pale’ is defined as “to wrestle,” broadened to mean “to struggle, fight, conflict, contest.” That’s deep Trumpism, especially because of his participation in, admiration for and understanding of professional wrestling. (It is one of the few things he really does understand.)
--Second, broadening the prefix to paleo, you get something old or ancient, and in modern contexts, referring to cavemen. I do not have to flesh this out.
--Third, pale (with no accent mark) is an accurate representation of Trump’s favored skin tone (besides orange, of course), favored peoples, and favored nations.
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Trumpistan:
I've been using another term to describe this time: Trumpistan. There is something of the Central Asian despot to Trump: corrupt and megalomaniacal like Saparmurat Niyazov building a statue of himself that rotates with the sun.
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from The Atlantic http://ift.tt/2ENDSml
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