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tldr "we" stopped calling them weird because it was actually working and democrats are allergic to winning. sample as that.
see, fascists love being perceived as scary, bad, even evil... fascism is an ideology of insecurity. crying about how scary they are, how threatened you feel, how they'll destroy everything you hold dear... that gives them power. they love that shit.
if anything you're pushing more pathetic insecure cunts to their side because they would rather side with the scary villains who say they will actually do shit than the people who just whine and do nothing else.
but calling them weird really, really annoyed them. to the point that they tried to reverse uno it ("i think saying men can be women is what's weird!") and pretend they don't care ("everyone's weird in a way, right? right?") or even outright cry that you should stop.
it was working because the bottomless insecurity that makes fascism appealing to begin with relies on defaultism of the self. to them they must be the default and everyone else must be weird. these are people who have nothing going for them. no personality, no morals, no one who likes them. they must be superior because they're the normal ones. that's all that they can cling to. that's why bigotry is easy for them. they can be superior for no reason other than existing as themselves. being white, straight, cis, having born somewhere... things they don't have to work for. things you can't take away from them. those things must be normal.
once you take that away they can't deal with that. being scary is powerful. being weird, bad weird, that's what others are supposed to be. that's not superior. it's not powerful. so they hated that.
naturally democrats realized it was a good play so they stopped it and instead insisted that you be impressed by how Liz fucking Cheney and other fucking republican demons endorsed the democratic candidate. wow thanks.
In other words: “controlled opposition”