Progressive is a term used to refer to things like cancer or emphysema or leftism — or indeed anything that slowly destroys whatever it touches.

In which our scholarly host takes another look into the Orwellian world that is the Leftese Dictionary.

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THE LEFT WING DICTIONARY VOLUME TWO

I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.

Huzzah.  And also Hip-Hooray.  It’s time for another installment of the Leftese Dictionary.  A dictionary of left-wing phraseology is a very important tool now that very important tools are actually running the country.  We stodgy conservatives are mired in the old-fashioned practice of using language to convey thoughts and ideas, but zippy, forward-looking, youth-oriented leftists use words that aren’t weighed down by things like “meaning,” or “sense.”  They just wiggle their fingers in the air like this so that when they drive the country into the crapper they can say it wasn’t their “fault.”

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