I do not want to be a loser...
Re "loser," one of the most interesting things about the campaign was Trump's use of the word. I mostly watched him early on when he used it a lot. It seemed to be his all purpose epithet there for a while. He even applied it to John McCain for his failure to avoid capture. Clearly from his usage he meant the word to be anyone unsuccessful.
Now, pre-campaign Trump would clearly have considered anyone who didn't have a good income, at a minimum, a loser. Likewise, anyone who was stuck in a failing community, who hadn't managed to get an education, whose adult kids lived at home, who shopped at Walmart, who drank cheap beer. Then, at some point, when he was gaining steam, you didn't hear the word anymore. Like he read his audience and it registered with him so he cooled it.
That's different from your use of the word and I'm not equating the two. Your post just conjured up the notion that registered with me when Trump eased up on usage of the word. |
