Even Republican cheerleader senator Mitch McConnell despairs over his celebration’s increasing weirdness.
In 2022, discussing away the GOP’s midterm election efficiency (read: not great!) he generally stated, yikes, what can you do? “My view was do the finest you can with the cards you’re dealt,” he stated of his fellow Republicans. “Now, ideally, in the next cycle we’ll have quality prospects allover and a muchbetter result.”
McConnell is the guy at the rager who’s informing individuals that he “came in with those guys, however not, like, with those guys” and hissing through his teeth at his associates to “try to act typical.”
No one is immune, no matter their political association. Former president George W. Bush was ahead of the curve in fingering Trump and his associate as weirdos, a sense of cringe goingbeyond any celebration commitments he may have. Officially, he participatedin Trump’s governmental inauguration in January 2017 to witness the serene transfer of power. Unofficially, he supposedly turned to his buddies as they left the dais and stated, “That was some unusual shit.”
TikTok and web culture aren’t the just fields Harris’s project has pulled from. Modern dating parlance provides us the concept of “the ick,” a term so relatable it was justrecently included to the Cambridge Dictionary.
It’s specified as “a unexpected sensation that you dislike somebody or something or are no longer drewin to somebody since of something they do.”
Once you get the ick, you can’t un-ick. Ever. In dating, that may indicate losing somebody’s number. In politics, the Democrats are hoping that citizens’ ick will equate at the surveys. Picture senior Democrats pulling citizens aside like they’re their closest sweethearts and murmuring, “Really? Him? But he’s so…weird.” Politicos can’t go all in, Walter Masterson styl
