John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CONSORTIUM NEWS
John Bolton’s Absurd ‘Troika Tyranny’
Why do American right-wing politicians feel the need to keep coining such expressions?
Troika of Tyranny?
Axis of Evil?
Evil Empire?
Almost like slogans used to sell canned soup or household cleaner.
What is the driving need for such phrases, which are all slightly comical while supposedly concerned with threatening and important matters?
They seem almost made to appeal to children.
There is something elemental and unpleasant suggested by the practice.
