The hack gap in American politics is fucking killing me.
@pratik yes. There’s a lot of people ignoring actions and ignoring words in favor of aesthetics. The same people who would yell at Trumpers to ignore aesthetics and look at actions and words.
The whole thing is the height of stupid.
@jsonbecker Sorry to raise a terminology question, but what does ‘hack’ mean in this context? My best guess is the journalistic meaning, but I don’t see how it applies. Certainly doesn’t seem to be anything to do with cracking computer systems. So is it another meaning I’m not familiar with?
@devilgate I think if you follow the link it’s clear what Kevin Drum means.
@jsonbecker I followed the link, and I understand the article. I just don’t understand the use of the word ‘hack’. He doesn’t repeat it after the title and the opening paragraph, and he doesn’t define it. So I don’t understand which part of liberals being ‘barely willing to wholeheartedly defend even the things where they legitimately have the better of the argument’ is a ‘hack’.
@jsonbecker Though a quick duckduck reminds me that I’d forgotten entirely the term ‘political hack’, and that Wikipedia article even refers to ‘hack gap’.
Not a term we use on this side of the pond.