re: A year ago, the Panicans said that Trump was full of shite

Look how amazing Donny is…the US can now do the same stuff in Greenland it always could.

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Legitimately asking this; What qualifies one as a "panican"?

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The MAGA decision tree works like this: Let's say you disagree with anything Trump does or says even if it's stupid as frick. If you're a Democrat you have TDS, if you're Republican then you're a Panican. that's pretty much it.

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I'll tell you what qualifies as a Panican

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We all have chat gpt accounts these days

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Let's say you disagree with anything Trump does or says even if it's stupid as frick. If you're a Democrat you have TDS, if you're Republican then you're a Panican. that's pretty much it.

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The edge case is the never-Trump RINO. They may self-identify as Republican, but be considered TDS because they rejected Trump from the jump. A panican might be better understood as someone who supported Trump but now is willing to be openly critical. What gets blurred further is whether it's just apostates / people who have become outspoken opponents of him like BeeFense or whether it also includes anybody who criticizes Trump in order to try to provide critical feedback from within the identity/coalition.

I don't think there's an official definition for me to be right about. I'm more interested in how the term actually gets used here.

What's your definition? In particular, is a panican somebody who's basically turned on Trump, or can it include somebody who still supports him but thinks he's screwing something up and says so?

Those seem like pretty different categories to me, which is why I think the term gets interesting.

By all means. It's a contested folk category. All takes welcome.

yeah, that's good, and “just letters amongst a bunch of other letters” is interesting. The ambiguity can actually be useful. We can be unable to agree on what a panican is yet everybody still knows roughly when to throw the word at somebody. "RINO" is like that too. We could argue all night about the definitions, but you generally know what somebody is doing when they call somebody else one.

Yeah but I think its more accurate to say you know what they think they're doing

RINO is a funny one ANYBODY thats been in politics on the Republican side in a serious way has been called a RINO over and over again
Usually by people who have no idea what a conservative is compared to liberal or progressive or moderate or populist

Yes, those have been in flux. You can definitely be standing in the same place and be drawn either in or out of the chalk RINO circle on the ground on a particular day but not another day over the years. Same goes for the Dem coalition. There seems to be kind of a gradation of opposition that goes from loyal criticism to wavering allegiance to factional opposition and ultimately to exit/apostasy. Panican might just mean further down that chain than is I think is acceptable for the coalition.