Trump takes language back to the Stone Age |
Trump takes language back to the Stone Age
April 26, 2026 — 5:30am
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Fire and brimstone, the end of days, the apocalypse, armageddon. The preachers of old, whether they be of religious faith or secular dominion, exhorted and roared for the gods of wrath to pass judgment on mere mortals and their failings. In essence, it was self-styled power-hungry and power-fuelled men, always men, trying to bend others to their will.
Their river of lava-like invective, in essence, was an oratory to subjugate. It has ebbed and flowed through history.
George Orwell, in his essay “Politics and the English Language”, written in the last year of World War II, believed that what politicians said publicly was, in the main, a defence of that which was indefensible. “Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can........