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.
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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.
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.”
(Trump is pouncing on Warren making misleading and false statements about her level of Native American ancestry.)