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Are The Frogs Boiled?

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Are The Frogs Boiled?

Joyce Vance
Dec 4, 2022
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Are The Frogs Boiled?

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Early on in the Trump administration, it was popular to use the metaphor of frogs being boiled. The idea was that people didn’t perceive the seriousness of the threat Trump posed because, like frogs who are put into a pot of cold water with the temperature raised gradually, the danger wouldn’t be perceived until it was too late. Frogs, boiled.

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