Mastodawn

When they write the book on fascism and the disfigurement of language, surely the term "double-tap" will be one of the entries.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-threatens-war-crimes-iran-131956447.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJoPopS2WEM8QU7cdLFhadUHLq9BCqIpZLDtbgA6fhGYxNIUZ0L5AFnAXZCjIj_ToRj8LLsg0CHDcjI-pbc_QEMdXN6j_p3Q8vtUjaixxX7_5-K1VB41SNnT7_82bRRWJweMYSXw9qax8-aZXEJtdGyoDH9ruwqBA4L1FxW_r0I8

Trump Threatens War Crimes in Iran After Double-Tap on Major Bridge

Donald Trump bragged about destroying a highway bridge near Tehran.

Yahoo News

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Alexander Karn 6d ago

Good moment to recommend Victor Klemperer’s The Language of the Third Reich. What Klemperer observed in the 1930s can be neatly applied to the MAGA regime and its brutalization of the English language.

https://progressive.org/op-eds/trumps-rhetoric-is-frightening-and-toxic-karn-20241029/

Trump’s Rhetoric Is Frightening and Toxic

What our leaders say—and whether or not they are truthful—matters. Donald Trump's vile word games are not compatible with democracy.

Progressive.org

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Alexander Karn

Publisher’s site:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/language-of-the-third-reich-9781472507211/

Language of the Third Reich

A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history – from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republ…

Bloomsbury