dreampolitik

English

Etymology

Blend of dream +‎ realpolitik.

Noun

dreampolitik (uncountable)

  1. (politics) Policy focused on emotion, fantasy and spectacle rather than pragmatism.
    • 2025 June 17, Zac Yang, “Bush!—The Dreampolitik of Comic Purity”, in The Isis Magazine‎[1]:
      Hamilton spurred a movement— suddenly, every other 14 year old girl was writing alternative universe coffee shop fanfiction about the Founding Fathers. The wig-wearing, never bathing, slave-owning Founding Fathers. All of a sudden, it was the dreampolitik of Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson.
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