Typically takes the form of a politician vehemently defending religion, country, law enforcement, and other societal sacred cows. This has the added benefit of discouraging critics, because anyone criticizing a defender of these symbols can then, by extension, be perceived as attacking not only the politician, but the symbol itself.
- championing public symbols that carry respect, authority, sanction, and prestige to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols. - championing public symbols that carry respect, authority, sanction, and prestige to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols. - championing public symbols that carry respect, authority, sanction, and prestige to assume the respect, authority, sanction, and prestige of those symbols.
