@hightor,
Quote:That's a good point. Every time I've heard someone referring to the "resistance" it's coming from a rightist. I'd assumed that the term had been appropriated by some rump element in the progressive movement, but yeah, it makes more sense if it's another case of right-wing disinformation.
Progressives — do any of you refer to yourselves as the "resistance"?
It is possible that some on the left use the term as a self-identifier but even if so, there's nothing untoward or inappropriate in such usage. It merely suggests an explicit oppositional stance to some political phenomenon, eg Trumpism or abortion on demand or any such. I mean, it is not as if Republicans refrained from resisting a Hillary presidency.
And your certainly correct in noting that the usage of the term is almost exclusively to be found in right wing media. They do this over and over, the strategy being to frame the discourse (more specifically, to frame groups of Dems) in a particular and negative manner. Truth, accuracy etc are irrelevant.
And then we see right wing folks here and elsewhere absorb this usage with little or no critical thought and then toss it out as if they have a grasp on something important. It is, as you say, disinformation.
