Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand. — Judges 12:6

Last week in this space, I noted early stages of the creation of a new shibboleth among the political class. Namely, you must refer to the detention camps for migrants and asylum-seekers at America’s southern border as “concentration camps.” It’s progressed, with increasingly absurd claims in tow, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-Instagram, tweeted out one of the articles behind the campaign and used the phrase “never again.”