Word: villainized
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...dimension. Almost all the 20th century's horrors (the slaughter of the Armenians, Stalin's starvation of the Ukrainian kulaks, the Hitler Holocaust) have begun with a demonization of others. Buchanan has a genius for techniques that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost...
...middle class have been lower taxes, less government. And the G.O.P. primary front runners are on message. With his plaid shirts and his footwork across the early primary states, Lamar Alexander has been straining for the common touch. But for the most part his populism identifies the standard G.O.P. villain, Washington. Steve Forbes? Enough said. As for Dole, his parents were so poor that during the Depression they moved the family to the basement of their house so they could rent the main floor to an oil company manager. But his solutions for the castoffs of the new economy...
...capital it could deploy against QualMed's own California operations. As long as Dr. Hasan pressed the lawsuit, Greaves knew, Health Net had no hope of going public. "It was devastating to us," Greaves says. "My name was in the paper every day as a bad guy, a villain...
...should the President be denied satisfaction on account of his office? If the office allows him to testify about exposing himself to a former employee, surely he will not be denied the privilege of defending his wife's honor. In the old days, he would have challenged that villain to a duel. But in these gentler times, mano a mano would seem more appropriate...
...against one man, Newt Gingrich, a vividly inviting target who virtually poses for cartoons of himself. Enemies picture Newt as the Simon Legree of school lunches and Medicare, the golfing partner of capital gains, the Churchill from K Mart, the nerd pistolero of the punitive right, the all-purpose villain...