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9. The right wing media is in a bind because the word that best describes Biden's approach is:
Sat Feb 26, 2022, 03:19 AM
Feb 2022

“CONSERVATIVE”

Not “conserv’tive” as in southern Republicanese, where it means “reactionary radical right wing asshole,” but “conservative” as in English (for our Republican visitors, that is a European language spoken in Great Britain, much of North America, and many former British colonies).

In English, the word implies a cautionary, measured, risk-averse, thought-out approach to matters, which is why many speakers of Republicanese don’t get it.

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