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The upshot of Roosevelt’s constant flackery, as one reporter of the era put it, was “more scoops of White House origin during the Roosevelt period than before or since.”

Ms. Sanders can be as disciplined as anyone in adhering to the tranquilizing platitudes of campaign flackery.

This flackery led to Grenell’s appointment as ambassador to Germany — a post he finally took up in 2018 after a Senate confirmation battle.

This is too often an undisguised exercise in PR flackery.

So whatever you think of her shameless flackery and see-through doublespeak, congrats to Trump consigliere Kellyanne Conway.