straw-grasping

noun

straw-grasping

noun

1

The act of grasping at straws.

Some of this is simply dead ender-claptrap: straw-grasping and copium for Trumpists who are struggling to assimilate the new reality.2020 December 21, Jason Wilson, “Sky News Australia is increasingly pushing conspiracy theories to a global audience online”, in The Guardian:

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