[“[A] third world country in a Gucci belt” has legs.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9726307/Video-shows-shows-2-8-MILLION-cost-four-month-stay-hospital-COVID-19.html) It’s a mess for many reasons, not least because “third world” is basically polite librul for “sh*thole,” but that kind of tangible, imagistic contrast could be a shrewd strategy for reframing brutal inequities in ways the GOP would have to fight.