Nasty-ism

Birth of “nasty-ism”: Senator Joseph McCarthy and Chief Counsel Roy Cohn for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, April, 1954. Photo courtesy wikipedia.com

It’s a thing. And it’s a harbinger of things to come.

Pause a while on the phenomenon of ‘bad girl’ Marjorie Taylor Greene and focus on “Nasty-ism,” a less obvious form of political stereotyping, bullying and repression.

‘Nasty-ism’ is a compound made-up word: a perversion of ‘nastiness,’ which sounds like Nazism. Before Marjorie Taylor Greene was in diapers, “nasty-ism,” as political repression was afoot.