In a Sunday, October 1 op-ed, New York Times opinion columnist David French posits that Christian nationalism may not be "serious," but it is "very dangerous." He argues, "It's not a serious position to argue that this diverse, secularizing country will shed liberal democracy for Catholic or Protest...
A interesting strawman.
An uninteresting display of stupidity
Err… that isn’t a strawman. A strawman is where the argument consists of misrepresenting the opposition’s belief or argument in a way that is much easier to attack than the actual argument.
A good explanation with some good examples can be found here: https://www.txst.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/straw-person.html
I feel like this is one of those words that’s been used so much on the internet that it’s lost all meaning.
That’s what they do. They take words that mean something serious and misuse them until most people don’t understand them anymore.