OK, so honestly, I kind of mostly loathe Lawrence O’Donnell, but I caught his MSNBC segment last night talking about “semantic infiltration”. Went down an internet rabbit hole and found a fascinating WaPo editorial from 1978. Not so sure about what it concludes but worth a look.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1978/11/21/distortions-of-political-language/47d51dc5-cff4-4424-84ea-1931a216ab96/