A few weeks back, I was having a conversation with my friend Jeff and my cousin Micah when the subject of 'Let's Go Brandon' came up. And we all were weighing in on what we make of this stand-in phrase which euphemistically tells President Biden how we feel about him.
While many folks enthusiastically embrace the slogan, and plenty of other dignified ladies and gentlemen are unequivocally opposed to it, I am inclined to wax more philosophical.
It would be one thing if trashy people were only saying how they feel about Joe Biden when they say this thing, or wear the t-shirt, or fly that flag, or proudly display this sticker in their window or on the back bumper of their pickup truck.
But that is just it. 'Let's Go Brandon' doesn't just say something about the President of the United States of America; it says something about our accumulated pent-up frustration with the dishonesty of our mainstream media in this country.
As Mike Rowe explained in his podcast from last week, people are tired of being told that what they are seeing and hearing is not what they are seeing and hearing. To put things more succinctly, we are all very tired of being lied to twenty-four hours a day. And we should be.
'Let's Go Brandon' then becomes a kind of stand-in catch-all for being fed-up with the games the Left in this country plays with language. It is also a kind of anthem for the blue-collar, working class people who get looked down on for not having graduated expensive colleges and universities.
Meanwhile, the gal with he advanced degree in women's studies - which may as well be rebranded 'the new humanities' if we are all women now - finds out she must take a job handing us our coffee in the morning. And the gal who went to trade school to learn how to weld is meanwhile making fat stacks of cash doing skilled labor.
For more on that last bit, check out this PragerU video from a month ago - 'Trading Up: Our Case For Trade Schools.'
But the point is that hard-working Americans are rightfully sick and tired of being told its raining when a never-ending procession of Lefties line up to pee on their leg. And that being the case, perhaps 'Let's Go Brandon' can be cut a little slack for turning the newspeak against its originators.
