New polling shows national Republicans and Iowa Republican caucusgoers were more interested in “law and order” than battling “woke” schools, media and corporations.
New polling shows national Republicans and Iowa Republican caucusgoers were more interested in “law and order” than battling “woke” schools, media and corporations.
It’s easily demonized.
You save one syllable, and in exchange you get a term that most conservative media consumers have never heard and have no idea what it stands for or means. Bonus points in this case because it sounds vaguely “foreign”, maybe even middle eastern.
This gives the opposition a lay up opportunity to show armed/active individuals and label them as “antifa”, and since they’re opposed to the Kool-Aid the conservative media machine is selling, it’s a trivial matter for them to set up their viewers/listeners to make the connections from “strange term they’re not familiar with” to “violent terrorists who oppose all that is right and good with America”.
The shortening simply gives the talking heads on the right an opening to add their misdirection to the conversation in a way that will resound with their base.