2026-03-14 13:18 UTC
@jensorensen Having been left-adjacent before the 90s, back then we used it to describe someone who thought eating a pulled pork sandwich was the same as giving aid to Newt Gingrich. Then Poppy Bush used it in a 1991 speech and Bill Maher got his talk show, and it metastasized into a right wing cudgel.
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@AdrianRiskin@kolektiva.social 2026-03-14 15:50
@linuxandyarn @jensorensen Came here to say exactly this. As early as the late 70s (in my personal experience--maybe earlier) PC was an exclusively lefty term for bossy and extreme wannabe political commissar types and then all of a sudden the YAF types took it up and the story told in the comic strip began.