Alice: "The question is whether you can make words mean so many different things." Trump uses an offensive term that’s unacceptable, suddenly everyone is using it, even to criticize him. When the word becomes widespread, suddenly Trump’s original comment isn’t as bad anymore because the word has now entered the lexicon. Because Humpty Dumpty was right -- the question is which is to be master. And we are well and truly in the midst of the struggle to answer that question.

Source: Huffington Post January 13, 2018 18:22 UTC