Violent rhetoric of the Demented Don and JD Vance tag team

 

Headline:  New York Times, 9/18/2024

Where once Donald Trump attracted only the right-wing fringe of American politics, now he leads it. Where once he kept some distance from agitators and provocateurs like Laura Loomer, now they’re at the center of his campaign. And where once he merely inspired extremists to act, now he points them directly at the objects of his rage. 

Take Springfield, Ohio, where schools, colleges and municipal buildings have been shut down and community events canceled owing to bomb threats targeting the city’s Haitian community. Those threats come as Trump — and his running mate, Senator JD Vance of Ohio — smear the Haitians of Springfield with the lie that they’re stealing and eating the pets of presumably native-born Americans. Vance, who was ostensibly elected to represent and aid the people of towns like Springfield, has been even more vicious than his boss, spreading the additional lie that Haitians have carried disease and disorder to Ohio.  [emphasis added]

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'tag tam' occurred in 1952.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. bad seed
2. bug off
3. cat sratch disease
4. cattle call
5. doublespeak
6. low blow
7. master class
8. viewership

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