dreampolitik means policy focused on emotion, fantasy and spectacle rather than pragmatism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 96 out of 100.
Etymology
Blend of dream + realpolitik.
noun
- Policy focused on emotion, fantasy and spectacle rather than pragmatism.“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.”