{"id":51762,"date":"2022-05-28T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51762"},"modified":"2022-05-28T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T16:29:58","slug":"solipsistic-wow-cool-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51762","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Solipsistic?&#8217; Wow! Cool word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/170127-kellyanneconway-editorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38422\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/170127-kellyanneconway-editorial-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/170127-kellyanneconway-editorial-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/170127-kellyanneconway-editorial-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/170127-kellyanneconway-editorial-1024x688.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, I have to look up words to find definitions with which I am unfamiliar.<\/p>\n<p>Former Trump administration senior policy adviser &#8212; and one-time 2016 campaign manager for Donald Trump &#8212; Kellyanne Conway dropped a word on me that forced me to crack open by dog-eared American Heritage man-cave dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>She writes in her new memoir about Trump that his 2020 re-election campaign was &#8220;more solipsistic than scrappy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I know what &#8220;scrappy&#8221; means. The &#8220;solipsistic&#8221; term got me scrambling. It refers to one&#8217;s fixation with <em>one&#8217;s self.\u00a0<\/em>Gosh. Do you think that fits Donald J. Trump to the proverbial &#8220;t&#8221;? It damn sure does!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a term that I want to nominate for the glossary of <em>cool words<\/em> that we might hear repeated by media talking heads as they discuss recent political history.<\/p>\n<p>Solipsistic? Yeah, I&#8217;m down with that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, I have to look up words to find definitions with which I am unfamiliar. Former Trump administration senior policy adviser &#8212; and one-time 2016 campaign manager for Donald Trump &#8212; Kellyanne Conway dropped a word on me that forced me to crack open by dog-eared American Heritage man-cave dictionary. She writes in her new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51762\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Solipsistic?&#8217; Wow! 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