Are you even the least bit surprised that the 2022 Word of the Year comes from a nearly 80-year-old Hollywood movie and literally means “the perception of deception”? Considering the state of our republic, I am not. “Gaslighting.” Seriously, that’s the 2022 Word of the Year. It was a word looked up frequently every single day. According to the folks at Merriam-Webster, this year saw a 1,740% increase in lookups for gaslighting. WTH? And, unlike previous years, there wasn’t a single event that drove significant spikes in the curiosity, as it usually happens with M-W’s chosen word. In 2021, their word was vaccine. In 2020, it was pandemic. But not this year.…