Word: crotcheting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential advisers who are paid to study them. Everyone gathered before the President pretends that each of them is like him and that he is like each of them. Here in our happy democracy everyone's opinion is equally valuable, everyone's question is equally informed, and every crotchet and quirk is equally worthy of the President's time. This is populism of the most romantic sort. And it is thoroughly bogus, a conjurer's trick: the appearance of substance with nothing substantial underneath...