Mayberry Machiavelli

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词形变化

Mayberry Machiavellis 复数 Mayberry Machiavellis

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person who furthers a cause by "reducing every issue to its simplest, black-and-white terms for public consumption", i.e., denying nuance by presenting stark but fallacious alternatives.

    贬义

    That Mayberry Machiavelli thinks that anybody who didn't support the Iraq war is a Saddam Hussein supporter.

词源

Coined by John J. DiIulio, Jr., who ran President George W. Bush's Faith-based Initiative. See Machiavelli. Mayberry was the name of a small rural town in The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., US TV shows that ran from 1960 to 1971.

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