Damon Linker,
writing for
The Week, about Clinton's "basket of deplorables" slander:
That's politics not as persuasion or policy argument but as masturbatory expressivism: one team intensifying its own political arousal to ensure that everyone does what he or she would have done anyway, though with even more enthusiasm than before.
"Masturbatory expressivism" and "political arousal" ... that's amazing imagery, reminds me of Orwell's "two minutes hate." When you remember she was speaking to an LGBT audience ....