We ply our trade with words and we like to think they have weight. But the wild Donald Trump-Zohran Mamdani news conference at the White House a week ago almost convinced us of the opposite. When it comes to saying what we mean, or not, America has gone totally bananas.

Consider: Mamdani has often said Trump is a “despot who betrayed the country” and a fascist. Hitherto, if you were called a fascist and you were not either the person or a follower of Benito Mussolini, that generally disinclined you to invite the name-caller for a cozy chat.

Consider: Trump had called Mamdani “a communist lunatic.” The same disinclination would normally apply.

But there the two of them were, offering up sweet nothings, the one to the other. Reporters in the room were incredulous. On social media, some pe

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