And the word of the season is. . . . "double down".

Every political season, it seems, there's a hot new word or phrase.

Last election, it was "vet", as in "So and so didn't vet their running mate X".  You'd hear it everywhere.

This election, it's "double down".  All last week the politicians were using the phrase "double down". Today a reporter used it.

I'm not sure how this happens.  I remember "que", the British phrase for a line of people, or to form a line, being popular in such a way.  I hated the overuse of "vet" last go around, and I'm already starting really dislike double down.  I frankly don't think it makes all that much sense in most lines of speech in which it is used, but apparently people like the way it sounds.  It is, I think, a term from gambling.  I'm not much of a gambler, so I'm not sure, but I think it means to double a bet.  Anyhow, enough is a enough, and I hope not to hear it again this season.