Weird Sisters

Are doing it for themselves

First Witch: Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

Second Witch: Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.

Third Witch: Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.

—Macbeth

Weird has become the bon mot of the US Presidential election, a linguistic weapon accidentally plucked from the lake of tired political vocabulary and now being wielded with fierce aplomb by the Harris…