Among the ways Trump’s election has already made America a better place, it has expanded the vocabulary of moonbats. The Biden Administration has given this site many opportunities to use the word “kakistocracy.” Now that kakistocrats have been voted out of power, moonbats have discovered the word.
Clarence Page specifically cites Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth as the sort of people who might staff a kakistocracy, while also getting in a dig against the great Calvin Coolidge.
The Economist has proclaimed it the Word of the Year:
Which word can capture the mix of surprise, excitement and trepidation people feel as the MAGA movement returns to power?
“Kakistocracy,” we are told — following an administration led and staffed by unsavory characters.
Even insufferably pretentious liberal elitists sometimes have a clue as to what is going on outside of their insular bubble of wokeness:
[M]any of [Trump’s] supporters are delighted, seeing in his appointments a wrecking crew to pull down a deep state they loathe.
The Economist has managed to get that much right. As for its use of the word “kakistocracy,” it makes sense when you consider that liberals live in upside-down world, where everything is called its opposite, as in Orwell.
On tips from ABC of the ANC.