On the problem of “people are saying a woman can’t get elected,” etc.
, and also as a direct line to and from the conspiracy-mongers at Fox News. It’s allowed him to pass off his most malignant notions and theories as the product of a foggy consensus of nameless, faceless others, who are merely seeking to clear up confusion about things that are not, in fact, confusing at all. It happens so frequently that we tend to gloss over it, but it even—and even embedded in the “favor” asked that has become the central claim in the ongoing impeachment hearings.
, ever, but simply to point out that in addition to being a rhetorical device used to evade personal responsibility or agency himself, it’s also a trick he uses to paint the “people” as an undifferentiated and powerless mass, separate from himself, the prime mover and decider.
What was once a dishonest trick to blame nameless, faceless others has suddenly become a means of giving voice to the fears of nameless, facelessThe problem with “people are saying” in political discourse when it comes from the left is that it’s just as unreliable as the claims made by Trump. It’s a way we give cover to our own worst fears and prejudices, by putting them in the mouths of an inchoate blob of other unspecified “people.
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