third rail

While Lamar’s performance indeed touched a political third rail by embracing pro-Black imagery and metaphors, the Compton, California, native was demonstrably most in his zone when basking in coy slights to his rap nemesis, Drake.

He called for stricter requirements around firearms, a subject that has been a third rail for the GOP since time out of mind.

Lehotsky argued plainly that “It’s the constitutional third rail, or it should be, for the government to insist it can engage in viewpoint discrimination.”

While we’re making the show and while Dan and the writers are putting it together, there’s sort of this invisible third rail.

“You can touch this mythical third rail and live to see another day.”