Dictionary.com changes the definition of "court-packing" to make it seem normal and legal

George Orwell noticed that one of the most effective weapons in the communist playbook was to re-define words--often giving them the opposite meaning of what they'd meant before the Party re-defined them.

So for example, in Orwell's "1984" the job of the Ministry of Truth was to scrub old books and newspapers of anything that contradicted the current position of the Party. 

Few of you will be surprised to learn that this  practice is alive and well among the American Left today.  Specifically, the leftists at Dictionary.com have re-defined "court packing" to make that seem normal and legal.

For Americans under 40 or so, Democrat president Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced many of the socialist programs we have today.  But after the Supreme Court declared a couple of FDR's socialist programs unconstitutional, Roosevelt threatened to add 9 socialist judges to the court, which would guarantee the court couldn't oppose any of FDR's schemes.  This was "court packing," and congress let FDR know they wouldn't support it.

But after Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi all said their party planned to counter Trump's appointment of three supposedly conservative justices by packing the court, the party's leftist allies rushed to claim that hey, Trump had actually packed the court--by appointing conservative judges to fill vacant seats.  Click any of these links to watch Dick Durbin, Mazie Hirono, Chris Coons, and Joe Biden push this absurd but well-coordinated talking point. 

Obviously, adding judges to the court isn't remotely the same as filling vacancies to keep the number of justices at nine, but the Democrats were determined to equate the two, to make Americans willing to accept the Dems' adding liberal judges when they gained stole the presidency.

The good little socialists at Dictionary.com have now helped the Dems, by changing their official definition of court-packing to help the Democrats snooker Americans into thinking court packing is no different than appointing justices to fill vacancies.

Until last month, Dictionary.com defined court-packing like this:

1. An unsuccessful attempt by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937 to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court, which had invalidated a number of his New Deal laws.

Now they've changed primary definition to this:

1. The practice of changing the number or composition of judges on a court, making it more favorable to particular goals or ideologies, and typically involving an increase in the number of seats on the court:
Court packing can tip the balance of the Supreme Court toward the right or left.

Most of us use words to communicate. Democrats and their enablers use them to lie.

H/T  Moonbattery.