This flips the tables

This was spotted in a Washington Post Op-Ed piece by Greg Sargent, discussing Biden’s plan to produce more jobs in the United States.  Here’s the excerpt:

Biden, by contrast, will do what Trump didn’t: Use active, interventionist government to actually create jobs and rebuild U.S. manufacturing capacity. While there’s no question the left deserves credit in pushing Biden in this direction, his broader agenda has proved unexpectedly progressive.

“This flips the tables,” Jared Bernstein, a progressive economist and outside adviser to the Biden campaign, told me. “It doesn’t just block incentives to send jobs overseas; it creates new ones to create jobs here.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/09/trump-has-one-last-remaining-lifeline-biden-is-moving-sever-it/

This is a congruent conflation of “turns the tables” and “flips the script”, both meaning to reverse or change something dramatically.  If Sargent had really meant to flip tables, he might have been tempted to use one of many emojis expressing this – see  https://cutekaomoji.com/misc/table-flipping/

A flip of the hat to Mike Kovacs for spotting this perfectly formed congruent conflation.

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