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Why words matter in political fights

Our country is in crisis, a crisis of vocabulary. Words matter. They have consequences, and yet words get thrown around carelessly in the middle of political fights. 

Opinion · 117th Congress

Rage, rage against the octogenarian steel cage match

Trump’s diminished vocabulary, tendency to meander, sometimes incoherent remarks, light office schedule and struggles to process information led critics to conclude that he was in decline.”