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The English language will continue to evolve in spite of Trump's Orwellian purge of woke words.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." So said Pogo, the titular character in a comic strip syndicated locally in The Salt Lake Tribune during the 1960s and 1970s.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." So said Pogo, the titular character in a comic strip syndicated locally in The Salt Lake Tribune during the 1960s and 1970s. Pogo was an anthropomorphic possum created by Walt Kelly, and is remembered chiefly for his Orwellian observation—the enemy is us.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find a growing number of Republican normies invoking Pogo in their private conversations. Neither would I be surprised to find MAGA Republicans thumbing through George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to brush up on Newspeak.
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