What does "weird" even mean? Why the vagueness works -- and why it's driving MAGA nuts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump is an ignoramus in most respects, but he's a proven master of this particular strategy.
63% : "Trump should know better.
54% : Trump uses this technique to normalize previously off-limits ideas all the time.
22% : But "weird" is undeniably delight everyday Americans who just find Trump and his movement alien and disgusting.
21% : Historian and blogger Erik Loomis wrote, "It's not so much that Trump is weird ... as [that] he is probably the single worst human being in American political history."As a writer myself, I shared this initial irritation at the word "weird."
20% : Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post worried that "weird" could "downplay the threat" of Trumpism by "making Trump seem merely daring or irreverent."
20% : Trying to parse what a consummate liar like Trump "means" with any given utterance is almost always a waste of time.
15% : Trump proved how getting defensive over the term "weird" only proves the charge.
11% : Yes, I laughed when I read the campaign memo from Vice President Kamala Harris telling reporters that Trump is both "old and quite weird."

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