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Michael John Gerson was an American journalist and speechwriter. He was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center
Dan Bartlett, Brett Kavanaugh, Condoleezza Rice, and Gerson review President George W. Bush's State of the Union speech in 2004.
In political communication, the "soft bigotry of low expectations" is an expression describing the practice of holding lower expectations for individuals or groups based on characteristics such as rac
Michael Gerson
…remembrance, and love have no end. And the Lord of life holds all who die, and all who mourn." Gerson was credited with coining such phrases as "the soft bigotry of low expectations" and "the armies of compassion". His noteworthy phrases for Bush are said to include "Axis of Evil," a phrase adapted from "axis of hatred," itself…
Michael Gerson, who coined the phrase as a speechwriter for George W. Bush
Bill Maher, who occasionally used the expression on Real Time with Bill Maher.
George W. Bush campaigning in New Hampshire during the 2000 United States presidential election, in which he popularized the phrase.