Consider the etymologies of 'analysis' ("breaking down" in Greek) and 'deconstruction' ("reverse of building together" in Latin) -- clearly both are meant to express the same idea. Taking things apart conceptually, not physically. For the latter we have the well-worn antonym, DESTRUCTION.
Curse Steve Bannon (and all in the NewSpeak RWNJ echo chamber) for corrupting the language, thus limiting its usefulness. I guess you'd expect that from a bloviating, mis-educated pseudo-intellectual who says "I am a church militant", with no understanding of the import of that phrase, either.
1
: a philosophical or critical method which asserts that meanings, metaphysical constructs, and hierarchical oppositions (as between key terms in a philosophical or literary work) are always rendered unstable by their dependence on ultimately arbitrary signifiers
also : an instance of the use of this method
a deconstruction of the nature–culture opposition in Rousseau's work
2
: the analytic examination of something (such as a theory) often in order to reveal its inadequacy
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Deconstruction doesn't actually mean "demolition;" instead it means "breaking down" or analyzing something (especially the words in a work of fiction or nonfiction) to discover its true significance, which is supposedly almost never exactly what the author intended. A feminist may deconstruct an old novel to show how even an innocent-seeming story somehow depends on the oppression of women. A new western may deconstruct the myths of the old West and show lawmen as vicious and criminals as flawed but decent. Table manners, The Sound of Music, and cosmetics ads have all been the subjects of deconstructionist analysis. Of course, not everyone agrees with deconstructionist interpretations, and some people reject the whole idea of deconstruction, but most of us have run into it by now even if we didn't realize it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deconstructionSomeone needs to send a memo to every editor in the English-speaking press, warning authors how stupid they look when they adopt Bannon's malformed vocabulary.
ETA: What the Radical Right is attempting may just as well be termed "disintegration". To "integrate" means "to make into a whole", and "disintegrate" is exactly, literally what MAGA wants -- loss of integrity, in more than one sense.
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