New York Times columnist William Safire has completed his first update of Safire’s Political Dictionary in decades. The latest version contains 1,800 terms, and Safire tells John J. Miller how entries make the cut: “First it’s got to be a political term. Second it’s got to be in the … public discourse.” Hillary gets credit for keeping “vast right-wing conspiracy” relevant. But “vast wasteland,” used a generation ago, is still in there, since the term occasionally pops up.
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