[Ads-l] kakistocracy

[Laurence Horn]

> On Nov 15, 2024, at 2:00 PM, Nancy Friedman <wordworking at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I wrote about it in 2016 and hoped never to write about it again.

”...that government of the shittiest, by the shittiest, and for the shittiest, shall not perish from the earth”

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> https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2016/12/word-of-the-week-kakistocracy.html
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> On Fri, Nov 15, 2024, 10:12 AM Kelly Wright <wrightlinguistics at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi, folks!
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>> I'm giving an interview to The Guardian today about the recent uptick in
>> use of *kakistocracy*. If this group has thoughts about this term and its
>> origins, I'd love to share them :)
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>> 
>> Yours,
>> K.
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