New Republican Buzzword: "Statist"

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Today, on the way home from work, I once again made the silly decision to listen to The Mark Levin Show on the radio. I really don't know why I keep doing this to myself. The program is thoroughly unpleasant, for many reasons. Not the least of which is the fact that when the host gets excitable (which is often) his voice becomes an eardrum-shredding horror.

But you do pick up a few interesting things. For instance, a while back I heard the genesis of "The Censorship Doctrine" as a replacement phrase for "The Fairness Doctrine." Thereafter, I heard or read the phrase in more than one location, though it didn't take off as well as Levin probably hoped.

Lately, there has been the birth of a new buzzword. Not satisfied with calling Democrats (and Barack Obama specifically) Marxists, socialists, communists, terrorists, what have you, there's a new word tripping from the likes of Levin. "Statist" is the word, though I'll confess to never hearing it before. In fact, the first several times Levin said it, I thought he was saying "sadist" or "stasis." I'm not sure the word has much sting, so whatever. We'll see if it catches on.