“Add new one, which will be rolled out for all future non-Left candidates: Insane.”
It’s actually not new.
The Soviets frequently dealt with dissidents by having some quack declare said dissident “insane” and then locking him away in an asylum, replete with shock therapy and massive drug dosages, so that he or she eventually does become legitimately insane -— at which time the shell of the former dissident was brought out and shown to crazy.
Heck, this was right out of the end of “1984.”
Exactly...I knew that, but...it is new in American mainstream politics.
I have extreme and extraordinary distaste for liberal officeholders like Carter, Clinton, Obama, and while I have said they are indeed stupid, misguided, or even evil with respect to various things, I have never called them insane (even if I feel, and have said on this very forum that liberalism is a form of insanity, and I do believe that some of them are insane) so this is new.