Get to know Robin Vos, Wisconsin's smashmouth politics maestro

 

Headline:  The Bulwark, 9/26/2023

The prickly Republican who represents a safely red district in Racine County was elected in 2004 and became speaker of the Assembly in 2013. A decade later, he’s still there—the most prominent Republican in state government and, as countless episodes attest, kind of a jerk. Robin Vos engages in smashmouth politics because he enjoys smashing mouths.

Reporter Bill Lueders opens the article by sharing an instructive experience as a member of a Wisconsin Study Council special committee chaired by Vos.  The topic:  expungement of criminal convictions.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'smashmouth', as in characterized by brute force without finesse, occurred in 1975.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. blood-and-guts
2. misery index
3. phallocratic
4. psychobabble
5. unsellable

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