I’ve been searching through the language used to describe the train wreck of a presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. These are the two words that leapt out at me: ‘malarkey’ and ‘addled’. One commentator said that both candidates spoke a lot of ‘malarkey’. (Don’t ask me which commentator – I am drowning in post-debate analysis, and the claims and counter-claims are blurring together in my head, like spilled paint that runs together until it turns into a brown sludge.
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