Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Pseudo-populism in America/reply (4)

"...so you can spin this around however you like." That's the point. You have to learn to speak in wingnut-ese. "Higher taxes" is pretty self-explanatory -- though sometimes you only need to pretend taxes have gone up. "Wasteful spending" is mostly anything that doesn't go into the military-industrial complex, which means its going to the looters and parasites (e.g., food stamps) or liberal propaganda (e.g., NPR). "Expanding bureaucracy" equals "anything that might cut into my bottom line."