Pearls of expression.

Horrific, baseless, hateful, Islamophobic backlash.

[Attorney General Loretta] Lynch also found it necessary, in Politico’s term, to "recalibrate” her statement to a Muslim civil rights group after San Bernardino that the Justice Department would “take action” against “hateful speech” that might inspire anti-Muslim acts. “Of course,” she later explained, in a manner suggesting that the principle she had just called into question had always been completely obvious, “we prosecute deeds and not words.” Lynch did not recalibrate another statement to the group, where she said her “greatest fear as a prosecutor” was that anti-Muslim rhetoric would promote a “backlash.” The inescapable conclusion, days after the San Bernardino shootings, was that the frontlash of jihadi violence on American soil was, at most, her second-greatest fear.

Frontlash.

The Reason I’m Anti-Anti-Trump. By William Voegeli, Claremont Review of Books, 12/28/15.