N.Y. Times Silent Majority wins it for Trump"

[busterbrown]

In so many words.

You know what “Silent Majority” means to me.

A lack of understanding/knowledge of political circumstances and events which effects
every aspect of my well being... And my determination to remain that way.

Besides.. Fox makes it so simple.

[Eleanors38]

1. "Silent Majority" came into useage about when the Party began its drift to the right...

As a committed, active "leftist" within the Party, I wondered about that time if the expression applied to me as well.

Political parties are supposed to help change the political culture and mythology. We are a sorry-assed outfit if the likes of Fox can slap us around.

[pnwmom]

2. It came into usage far before then. I saw it in a newspaper headline early in the century.

It referred to the dead.

[murielm99]

4. Nixon used this phrase a lot.

I remember it from some of his live addresses to the nation. He used it as a rebuke to the protests.

[pnwmom]

6. I know he did. But well before Nixon came along, people used it to mean "the dead."

I thought it was wonderfully ironic that he was comparing his supporters to dead people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority#Euphemism_for_the_dead

Euphemism for the dead

The phrase had been in use for much of the 19th century to refer to the dead—the number of living people is less than the number who have died throughout human history (in 2011 there were approximately 14 dead for every living person[3]), so the dead are the majority in that sense. Phrases such as "gone to a better world", "gone before", and "joined the silent majority" served as euphemisms for "died".[4] In 1902, Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan employed this sense of the phrase, saying in a speech that "great captains on both sides of our Civil War have long ago passed over to the silent majority, leaving the memory of their splendid courage."

[LovingA2andMI]

3. Silent Majority My A**

[BigDemVoter]

5. I guess they must be talking about those silent 3 million votes that went for HRC. . . .

[MFM008]

7. silent majority my ass

the russians got the maggot in office not a bunch of morons in 3 or 4 states.