They Can't Stop Stealing My Stuff

Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson crowing over their Bulwark colleague's brilliant coinage:

“Vichycon” . It is pure brilliance. https://t.co/DLYpSNoyAp

— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) October 16, 2020

And here is the late Steve Gilliard explaining his coinage of the term "Vichy Dems" 15 years ago -- a term which has been in near-constant use on the Left ever since:

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Now that we have that out of the way

The reason I chose that term was simple: to describe Democrats who routinely embraced GOP ideas and positions to attack other Democrats. Remember, Vichy not only rounded up the Jews, they hunted down resistants and sent troops to fight for Hitler.

Oh, and I've used the term for over a year, in fact I didn't use it at all concerning Alito.

My point in using the term was to highlight how these Dems pledged fidelity to the party, but by their actions, provide support to the GOP. People like the DLC, who not a day, a day after the election, went after the Dems and listed their flaws. Or Democrats who kept pushing " values" as code for abandoning abortion rights and gays.

These people, by their actions, weakened the party and people's support for it. Exactly how Vichy operated, trying to curry favor with their new rulers, even at the cost of their own country.

But of course, this article is nonsense. The so-called "moderates" often stand with Bush against the party, they badmouth other Dems, even attack the party chairman, unaware of how weak it makes them look, providing near constant fodder for Jon Stewart's jokes.

So that's where the term came from.

Of course, if he was actually interested in the facts, he might have interviewed some people first.

Whatever would our Never Trump BFFs do without decades of Liberal vocabulary and analysis to plunder?

 

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