"Trump's 'jazz hands' "...

...I believe that was the way I first saw it described at DU. The "air accordion" is also popular.

He never got the credit he deserved? Just a couple of days ago, Trump...

...started making all kinds of paranoid statements about the "Covid hysteria" of the "left" (gag). You know, instead of actually appearing Presidential: at least feigning concern about rising cases and hospitalizations in the last few weeks, etc.

Trump deserves little or no credit for his "handling" of Covid. From his firing of the CDC intelligence team, ignoring what little early information there was after firing said intelligence team, the discarding of the Obama-era pandemic strategy, ignoring the pandemic to suck up to Wall Street, claiming we would be "back to normal by Easter", and in general making Covid into yet another front in the culture war, Trump made the pandemic even worse whether he intended to or not. Even the one thing he can legitimately claim as his own--freeing up Federal funds and cutting red tape for rapid vaccine development--was mostly ruined by his need to Kulturkampf absolutely everything, including even a public health crisis. For God's sake, every time Trump encouraged his followers to get vaccinated, they shouted him down! Eventually, it became such a media spectacle that he just gave up.

Wow, how do you even respond to that kind of self-delusion.

The worst part is that America never had a plan for the day that those changes would come...

...and any idiot could see that those days were indeed coming, and soon. By the mid-'70s, the Japanese were starting to make significant progress in their export of high-technology items like electronics and cameras. That only intensified in the '80s with auto manufacturing. Yet most American planners, particularly those who were neoliberal Reaganites, assured their fellow Americans that everything would be fine; we would be happy as workers in a service economy.

Douthat has never lived down that "chunky Reese Witherspoon" comment...

...and it's been years now. The hosts of the Chapo Trap House podcast are particularly savage each time he writes one of his 20,000-word jeremiads--which arrive far too often.

A closely related concept is "The Cavuto" or "Cavuto Mark"...

...popularized by Jon Stewart.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions#Frequent_question-askers (cf. third paragraph)

Not much doubt about that. Speaking of which...

...RationalWiki has a good overview of Ancient Aliens.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ancient_Aliens

Most of these kinds of questions are best answered using "Betteridge's Law".

Yes, that's basically the assertion of "co-belligerency". The most conservative and fanatical...

...subcultures in various Christian sects have made common cause as a sort of far-right counterculture. Nearly all mainline Protestant denominations disagree with this, but that's not where the growth has been over the last twenty or thirty years. The mainline Protestants have been declining in number while the much more ideological and fundamentalist Protestant churches have grown. The Southern Baptists had a sort of "palace coup" years ago where the worst of them took over, and the non-denominational Protestant megachurches became a real force of nature, particularly in suburban America.

Radtrad Catholics were very skilled in playing the long game when it came to shifting the culture inside the Protestant church; it took decades to accomplish. The only positive side to all of this is that the youngest members of these churches (both Catholic and Protestant) are really turned off by the politicization and have started to leave in droves. So the huge growth in Protestant fundamentalism and "co-belligerency" with the radtrad Catholics may be coming to an end.

And the religious right in general, under the principle of "co-belligerency", ...

...an alliance between the most conservative wings of Catholicism and evangelical Protestantism. They have already been attacking "Plan B" and contraception in general. It shouldn't be that surprising that they would like to return the country to the Dark Ages in many other ways.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016356080#post33