This whole thing strikes me as a tempest in a teapot. Really, if a word actually *is* toxic, *don’t use it if you are campaigning for office.* Use some other, less toxic, wording to market yourself. Simple.

Then again, this is also the people who helped five us Hillary in 2016 and a senile Biden in 2024 smugly and arrogantly lecturing us all about what is and is not viable politics. So keep that in mind.

Biden should have announced he wouldn't run for a second term, and he should have done it sometime between August of 2020 and February of 2021. Ron Klain might be the person to blame. It's not "Democrats."

You ignore 2020 when Biden won. Or 2018 when centrists took back the House while progressives didn’t flip a single seat.

The words and phrases themselves strike me as ranging from genuinely odd and offputting to ones I myself use regularly (and don’t think that odd). I don’t think they are all equally toxic. Some of them I have even heard righties use. I suspect for many of them, it will strongly depend on context.

But overall, a tempest in a teapot. I think finding the right candidates with the right policy message matters more than obeying anyone’s magic list of words/phrases to avoid at all cost.

But hey, Tom seems to derive pleasure from being a curmudgeon (for a long time he even proudly described himself thus) sermonizing liberals, and I doubt anything I post here will change that.

Under Biden the best investments in America and Americans in your lifetime. Lowest unemployment, higher wages, highest job creation. I don’t get why Progressives and MAGA find them ‘boring’ accomplishments.

Yet he was senile and the Democrats got caught with their pants down covering it up. After campaigning for years on how the GOP couldn’t be trusted, and how fitness for office was a key characteristic for any candidate to have. He shouldn’t have run for re-election. Full stop.

Again. You ignoring all the accomplishments is silly.