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WHISTLE BLOWER
Weird Should Be the New Normal
Please don’t tell me not to vote for weird — I’m not voting for Trump but please realize you’re offending me and others
Ever since I read that “weird” has become a Democratic Party favorite denigration of MAGA Republicans, and possibly morphing into a denigration of all people who will vote for Ex-President Chump, this left-leaning centrist independent (hi Colby Hess) has cringed. This New York Times post by Thomas Friedman resonated with me.
For a few days this last week I started to believe that Kamala Harris and the Democrats could come from behind and beat Donald Trump. But then I started to hear Democrats patting themselves on the back for coming up with a great new label for Trump Republicans. They are “weird.”
I cannot think of a sillier, more playground, more foolish and more counterproductive political taunt for Democrats to seize on than calling Trump and his supporters “weird.”
Tonight, it finally dawned on me why I have cringed.
I’m weird.
