Appendix:Snowclones/it's the X, stupid

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English

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Etymology

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From Bill Clinton's 1992 U.S. presidential campaign slogan "It's the economy, stupid".

Phrase

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it's the X, stupid

  1. (snowclone) One should focus primarily on X.
    • 2002 October 12, Frank Rich, “It's the War, Stupid”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
    • 2017, Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Elsevier, →ISBN:
      It's the climate, stupid, and it's changing, so we better do something about it and fast.
    • 2021 September 27, Noah Millman, “It's the virus, stupid”, in The Week‎[2]:
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