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Concepts coined on the record. Each enters the vocabulary in one issue and is cited by the issues that follow, so the publication compounds. Nothing here is silently patched; a term means what its coining issue says it means.

7 terms · 6 issues
The FDR exit
The bench, on new evidence mid-issue

Neutralize an insurgent by adopting the popular half of his program and starving the rest, so his voters arrive without his movement.

Entered the record when FDR was added mid-issue and the analysts returned for a second round rather than having their first speeches retconned.

Long's bullet
The bench

The reminder that decapitation risk runs both ways: a movement built on one man ends with him, and planning that assumes his persistence is planning on a coin flip.

Coined alongside the FDR exit in Issue No. 5's proceedings, when the analysts returned to price the only exit in the file.

A term is retired only on the record, with the ruling that retires it.