bugaboo

And despite getting Anthony Rizzo to pop up for the second out, the long-ball bugaboo bit him against Volpe.

It metastasized from there, becoming a bugaboo on all sorts of MAGA-aligned accounts.

In the most Veep-like moment of the campaign, Trone, during a House Budget Committee meeting, meant to say “bugaboo,” but instead used a phonetically similar racial slur.

The frankly odd “bugaboo” issue aside, some of these controversies are over standard stuff in competitive primaries: Candidate A says he has better experience and better endorsers.

He later apologized, adding that he misspoke and meant to say “bugaboo.”