Meaning of I'm rubber, you're glue | Babel Free

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Countering an attack on one's character.

childish

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““You’re nothing but a — a cheat,” Florence said. “I’m rubber, you’re glue, everything you say sticks right back to you,” John said calmly, complete master with all the answers.”

“Few anticommunist accusations are more trite than that Marxism is a religion, the Manifesto a religious tract and Marx himself[…] a ‘religious eschatologist’. At a banal level, to many of the accusers can be said in retort: I am rubber, you are glue.”

“And in the 2016 campaign, Mr. Trump applied the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” approach to a wide range of vulnerabilities.”

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