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Opinion: 45 words Democrats have been warned to never say

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Liberals are different from you and me. They have more gobbledygook.

Their pretentious vocabulary is what’s keeping progressives from connecting with everyday Americans, according to a memo prepared by a left-leaning think tank and aimed at helping Democrats regain their common touch.

Titled, “Was it Something I Said?” the memo comes from Third Way and lists 45 words Democrats should never use in communicating with “normies.” Normies, apparently, refers to everyone who is not a bat-scat left-wing lunatic.

Released exclusively to Politico, the memo scolds Democrats and their allies for using “an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying.” (Like “normies,” perhaps?).

That, the authors warn, makes them “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory enforcers of wokeness.