How can something be both traditional and iconoclastic?

He was probably trying to say iconic.

I can only think that he’s made a mistake and the word does not mean what he thinks it means.

It just a reflection of what clowns we have fighting to represent us. Is there a country with a functional government willing to take us in? Anyone looking for poor huddled masses?

Iconic. That actually makes a lot of sense.

He may be trying to say that what was once considered a traditional family is now so rare that living that lifestyle is iconoclastic?

I’m guessing it’s like @nikipedia said. This is a common political trope: the familiar outsider, the rebellious conformist. It’s what comes of trying to be everything to everyone.

That actually makes a lot of sense

I think you are being sarcastic. If you are serious, excuse me.

But here is how I see it.

He meant iconic.

Merriam Webster: A cultural icon can be a symbol, logo, picture, name, face, person, building or other image that is readily recognized and generally represents an object or concept with great cultural significance to a wide cultural group.

Wikipedia: In the media, many well-known manifestations of popular culture have been described as “iconic”...A representation of an object or person, or that object or person may come to be regarded as having a special status as particularly representative of, or important to, or loved by, a particular group of people

@jaytkay No, I was being totally serious. If I was being sarcastic, I would have said “yeah, iconic, cuz that makes total sense… ~”. It makes total sense to me that he thought the two words meant the same thing, or misspelled iconic and then chose the wrong autocorrect option.

@Aethelflaed Got it, thanks. It’s disarming when someone is earnest on the Internet! :-)

Relevant.

@SavoirFaire Hence, the tags. Also, that might be my favorite Princess Bride quote (but there are so many, it’s hard to tell).

It’s an oxymoronic statement.~