Power Line’s Lexicon of Leftist Locutions—Updated
12th July 2022
Populism: When the wrong person or cause wins a free election, like Brexit or Trump.
Racism: Any kind of resistance, conscious or unconscious, to the political program of the left.
Democracy: Any institutional design or voting system that enables the left to get what it wants.
Updated version: “Our” democracy—the version of “democracy as the left defines it.”
“Threat to democracy”: When Republicans win an election.