Forty-Two Dirty Words Democrats Can’t Say on the Campaign Trail

The memorandum from a center-left think tank, Third Way, listing 42 words and phrases that Democrats would be wise to avoid if they hope to win elections could be a linguistic life raft — if the left listens. Third Way reckons that these words erect “a wall between us and everyday people of all races, religions, and ethnicities,” and that they amount to a lexicon that “people simply do not say, yet they hear them from Democrats.”