'Cuckservative': the internet's latest Republican insult hits where it hurts

[TygrBright]

The Guardian picks up on the latest "you're not crazy enough for me" trend in GOPpie wackjobbery:

'Cuckservative': the internet's latest Republican insult hits where it hurts

A delicious excerpt:

It has been dubbed a sign of a “raging civil war” tearing the Republican party apart, “the GamerGate” of white supremacists, and a meme expressing “a certain kind of contempt”. But the dictionaries have yet to step in, leaving readers to take it apart more or less on their own.

The basics are simple: cuckold, a man with an adulterous wife or partner, and conservative, which in context means someone on the spectrum of 21st-century Republican thought.

The insult’s most general gist is conservatives accused of bowing to one non-conservative idea or another, eg immigration reform, should feel humiliated, their ideology adulterated.

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is thus accused of cuckservatism for supporting a path to citizenship for immigrants, rather than the “big, beautiful wall” to enclose the United States, as endorsed by Donald Trump in last week’s GOP debate.

There's a kind of creepy fascination to cannibalism...

amusedly,
Bright

[malaise]

1. Someone will eventually get hurt physically

It's all so delish

[TygrBright]

2. I know, I know.... Schadenfreud is an ugly thing... but irresistible.... n/t

[Jim Lane]

5. If you can't say anything nice about anyone, come over here and sit by me.

Attributed to Alice Roosevelt Longworth.

Perfectly applicable to any discussion of contemporary Republican politics. Irresistible, indeed!

[BillZBubb]

3. They are all Kochservatives anyway.

So Cuckservative isn't too far off.

[TygrBright]

4. Onomatopoetically, the zingers just keep (sorry) coming... n/t