It’s hard to imagine the current governor of Florida trying to curry sympathy from a Republican electorate that couldn’t get enough of it when Trump called Elizabeth Warren “Pocohontas.” It’s not like DeSantis can complain or cry foul about this.
Somewhere, Don Rickles must be thinking that if he were born 30 years later, he might have been president. But “meatball” is also a slur against Italian-Americans (all eight of DeSantis’ great-grandparents came here from Italy).
But what does “meatball” even mean? T he New York Times calls it “an apparent dig at appearance,” which I take to suggest a shorter, pudgier frame-while hinting at a lock of social grace. The good news for DeSantis is that this specific technique is not currently being used on him (stay tuned for “ Groomin’ Ron”). “‘Crooked Hillary,’ is exponentially more powerful than the statement ‘Hillary is crooked,’” wrote Jon Allsop in Columbia Journalism Review back in 2017, “just as ‘the Big, Bad Wolf’ resonates more deeply than the claim that ‘the wolf is big and bad.’ The academics Jason Stanley and David Beaver argue… that this is because ‘Crooked Hillary’ slips into the mind as a presupposed truth.” There are linguistic reasons why some of his name-calling packs an especially powerful emotional punch. Evan Siegfried, a Republican strategist, concurred, saying, “The bottom line is: Trump’s nicknames stick.” “Trump realizes campaigns, especially for president, aren’t about issues-they’re all about personalities, especially for independent voters,” Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist, told Roll Call.
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