So I just watched the stand-back-and-stand-by clip. He trotted it out so casually makes me think it’s a conventional turn of phrase in some circles? Sounds vaguely military.
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The phrase is a superposition of ridiculous and scary and we won’t know which until the wave function collapses.
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'Stand back': to take a few steps backwards
'Stand by': to be or to get ready to act
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He played for time by asking Wallace to "give me a name" so he wouldn't have to say it. He knew what he was doing.
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I wish having that the clarity here was going to swing some in the middle. I'm afraid too many of the swing voters are privileged non-minorities, like pro-lifers who will vote for him on that issue alone. How many will see that we are all at risk from fascism?
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That was my initial reaction too, but I kind of suspect it was a calculated, preemptively developed phrase - It fulfills the usual trumpian goals of signalling to the extremists that they're important, well providing deniability with the "stand back"
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