“Political correctness” had its heyday back in the late 1980’s/early 90’s. People still refer to it, of course, but as an actual movement – the kind that briefly was establishing speech codes across America’s college campuses – its sun has set.
Except, curiously and in a weird kind of way, in politics. I don’t know why it is, but in American politics – especially American presidential politics – a strange kind of political correctness attaches to both parties, to both parties’ supporters, and to both parties’ supporting pundits, and it prohibits people saying flat out some things that everybody knows to be true but about which we are all supposed to pretend we are completely unaware.
Here are two examples of truths that everybody recognizes, but nobody says:
