Thanks to a great response last week to an article about Klaus Schwab’s creep-tastic use of the term “transparency,” I’m pressing forward with a Devil’s Dictionary-style lexicographical project, tracking multitudinous dystopian alterations to American political speech. …

Here cites are important because they allow us to see how a 1966 use of transparency that meant people seeing sins of government turned into a 2023 usage meaning government seeking out the people’s sins. The more completely such changes are tracked, the more damning the lexicon.

Today’s theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious: DEEP STATE[.]

[As Taibbi points out, the MSM had no problems with that term a decade ago when championing Edward Snowden, and even earlier when the Left applied it to the Bush administration. When Trump adopted the term for the same purposes, however, mainstream media instantly Winston Smith-ed it into conspiracy thinking and right-wing extremist “fantasies.” The changes around “working class” are more subtle, but they are just as Orwellian. — Ed]