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Trump gives himself a baffling compliment for coming up with new insult for Democrats
The State as PunchlineThe insult is the least important partAt a Mack Truck plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump introduced his latest schoolyard insult for Democrats: “Dumocrats.” He then praised himself for inventing it, as if political insight now consists of swapping one vowel and crowning the result wit. The source presents this as a bizarre verbal flourish. It is more revealing than that.Power speaks, and the target is the oppositionThe person with actual institutional power in this story is Trump. He was not a random commentator riffing from the sidelines. He was speaking as…
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