The Conservative Hippie Podcast

Episode 38 Photo Credit: Maria Oswalt Trope:  What is a trope? I've lived 45 years on this planet without hearing that word.  It's all the rage these days: "Don't fall for the gas lighting trope." "He's using a racist trope." "She's alluding to an antisemitic trope." As I was researching what exactly a trope was, I discovered I may have heard it before after all.  It's a literary term describing plot development.  So in our modern psy-ops politics this term has been co-opted to describe a sly way of inferring something dastardly without overtly signifying the thing itself. But I'm here to tell you:  It's ok.  Most likely the user of the word trope may indeed be spinning their own trope of deflection.  Yes indeed, they may be using an old political trope by accusing an adversary of using a trope.  How can we survive stuck in this terrible trope! Just remember:  Omar can criticize Israel on the Palestin