Steve Bannon Calls For 'Shock Troops' To 'Deconstruct' State As GOP Takes Oval Office

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51. "Deconstruct" -- I don't think that word means what you think it means.

de·con·struct
/ˌdēkənˈstrəkt/

verb: deconstruct; 3rd person present: deconstructs; past tense: deconstructed; past participle: deconstructed; gerund or present participle: deconstructing

analyze (a text or a linguistic or conceptual system) by deconstruction, typically in order to expose its hidden internal assumptions and contradictions and subvert its apparent significance or unity.
"she likes to deconstruct the texts, to uncover what they are not saying"
reduce (something) to its constituent parts in order to reinterpret it.
"do we need to deconstruct all the institutions that we've created in order to improve them?"

Even the second definition seems to imply a metaphorical disassembly -- i.e. an analysis -- not an actual teardown. Bannon seems to think it is meant literally, to disassemble or destroy. He should just say "destroy", since that is actually what he means.

Bannon styles himself an intellectual, but keeps revealing himself to be a pseudo-intellectual who doesn't even understand the language he uses. Which is why he called himself a "church militant", not realizing that he was saying he is a church ...

the Church Militant (Latin: Ecclesia militans), which consists of Christians on earth who struggle as soldiers of Christ against sin, the devil, and "the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places";[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_Militant,_Penitent,_and_Triumphant