The onus of this confusion lay fully in the language Bentham used to convey his ideas. Particularly the way that Trump uses the phrase, ‘peaceful transition’ proceeding his loss in the 2020 election exemplifies the danger of the trade that Trump has deliberately chosen to make. Fundamentally saying his predecessors did not gift him a peaceful transition simply by criticizing him and objecting to his actions and/or policies. I would argue that the majority of English-speaking people would find the phrase ‘peaceful transition, to be a straightforward one to understand but the fact it is not very specific allows the abuse of its vague meaning. The irony of a sophisticated lexicon has never been so prevalent.

Source: Washington Post November 30, 2021 21:16 UTC