Guide to Ism’ology, Idioms & Metonymies

 

 

 

 

 

 


ISMS

Capitalism
Conservatism
Fascism
Federalism
Liberalism  TEXT
Nationalism
Patriotism+
Populism
Progressivism
Protectionism
Relativism
Revisionism (Historical)
Republicanism
Socialism

METONYMIES & SYNECDOCHES LIST
Benedict Arnold (Traitor)
Camelot (A Castle In King Arthur’s Idealized Era > JFK’s White House)
Capitol Hill or the Hill (Congress = Senate & House of Representatives)
Detroit (Auto Industry)
Foggy Bottom (Department of State)
K Street (Lobbying Industry)
Hollywood (Entertainment)
Madison Avenue (Advertising)
Oslo (Idea of Two-State solution in Israel)
Pentagon (Department of Defense/Military Brass)
Silicon Valley (IT)
Vatican (Holy See, Papacy, Catholic Church)
Wall Street (High Finance)
White House (Presidency)

POLITICAL IDIOMS, SLANG & BYWORDS
Achilles Heel
Blue Pill/Red Pill (from Matrix)
Bootsrapping
Borked
Boy Who Cried Wolf
Crossing the Rubicon
Dark Horse
Dog That Caught Car
Dog Whistle
Double-Edged Sword
False Flag
Fifth Column
Foisted On His Own Petard
Gaslighting
Gate Suffix
Getting the Heisman
Grassroots/Astroturfing
Jump Ship
Lame Duck
Lightning Rod
Litmus Test
Low-Hanging Fruit
Martha Mitchell Effect
Nixon-to-China
Potemkin Village
Pyrrhic Victory
Ratchet Effect
Red Herring
Reichstag Fire
Remember Munich/Ghosts of Munich
Sister Souljah Moment
Stalking Horse
Straw Man
Swiftboating
Third Rail
Tip Of Spear
Trojan Horse
Wag the Dog
Whataboutism (tu quoque)