A few months ago, in my Words as Weapons post, I touched on a strange nickname Washington Post media writer Margaret Sullivan assigned to stories about election fraud in 2020. She called the whole theory “the Big Lie.” Back then I found the nickname childish. I still do, but something disturbing happened recently to make me finally want to figure out where it came from.
The unthinkable origins of the term “Big Lie”
The unthinkable origins of the term “Big Lie”
The unthinkable origins of the term “Big Lie”
A few months ago, in my Words as Weapons post, I touched on a strange nickname Washington Post media writer Margaret Sullivan assigned to stories about election fraud in 2020. She called the whole theory “the Big Lie.” Back then I found the nickname childish. I still do, but something disturbing happened recently to make me finally want to figure out where it came from.