On Oct. 25, 2023, Anne McElvaine was sending a message to a friend in response to House Republicans unanimously electing Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker. She was saying that he appears to be an idiot and a nut. A typo combined those words into the wonderfully appropriate neologism “idionut.” It is a word for our times.
Author: Anne McElvaine
Anne McElvaine grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island. She is a retired public school special education teacher, mother of four grown children and three grandchildren, an advocate for justice and the rights of all, an avid reader and world traveler.