It has really been astonishing to me, who 20 years ago assumed (and was taught by conservatives to expect) that it was just a matter of time till the Damn Libruls finally carried the day and drained language of all meaning.\u00a0 Over and over I was warned (and warned others) that conservatives\u2013and especially Catholic ones\u2013were the bastions against all the deconstructionist nonsense in the academy which insisted that language has no objective meaning and that \u201ctruth\u201d was simply a mask on the face of Power.<\/p>\n
Again and again, I was taught and believed that language was not an infinitely malleable thing, that (in the words of Rush Limbaugh) \u201cwords mean things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again and again, it was dinned into me by conservative Christians that, unlike libs, we believed as conservatives and as Christians in \u201cpersonal responsibility\u201d.<\/p>\n
Now? Good Catholic Kelltyanne Conway jabbers about \u201calternative facts\u201d.<\/p>\n
The MAGA cult of Trump defenders talks like Pontius Pilate to say literally anything to make truth meaningless:<\/p>\n
\n>@RepMarkMeadows<\/a> just said this: \"Everyone has their own impression of what truth is.\"<\/p>\n
\u2014 John Bresnahan (@BresPolitico) November 13, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n