BY FROMA HARROP In politics, the “dog whistle” is coded language designed to delight a targeted subgroup and pass over the heads of everyone else. Other terms, such as “establishment,” “Washington insider” and “free trade,” are not quite full-grown dog whistles. Let’s call them puppy whistles. These are expressions whose meanings remain vague. For the puppy whistle, the vaguer the better. Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders rail against “the establishment.” This is a way […]
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