rayon on Instagram: "“In politics we punch up” captures a structural truth about how power is framed, attacked, and defended in public life. The phrase doesn’t describe morality; it describes strategy. In any society, some groups possess disproportionate influence—economic, social, cultural, bureaucratic, or demographic. Political rhetoric instinctively targets those groups because attacking power is easier to justify than attacking the powerless. A politician who criticizes the marginalized loo