Ironic turns of phrase
From a friend who goes as kestrel’s nest: The phrase [“building a Red America”] caught me up short, remembering the jingos of my adolescence, one of which was “better dead than red” in reference to Communism. Back then, “Red” was synonymous with evil, anti-democratic, “anti-American” politics. Now it is used to mean “Republican, right-wing ‘ultra-American’ […]