re: #642 Hecuba’s daughter

The original definition of “silent majority” was a euphemism for the dead.

The more famous (and likely more relevant) usage of it was the invocation of the term by then-Pres Nixon in ‘69 when he was confident that the majority of Americans secretly supported the Vietnam War and were not supporting the increasingly outraged protests.

For those who weren’t around and may have missed that page in their history books, Nixon ultimately found out that no such “majority” existed.