The Rise of #Cuckservative - How Conservatives Adopt Racism, Sexism & Let Their Freak Flag Fly

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Today, Joan Walsh becomes the latest writer to discuss the rise of the hashtag #cuckservative - a phrase that they credit to Donald Trump, who has used the phrase recently as a way to brandish conservatives who sell out.  Her excellent article, which is viewable here, discusses the rise of the term and in her view the racist & sexist overtones.

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Joan Walsh at Salon.Com digs right into the issue - but without the backstory, she can only get so far.

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Then “cuckservative” started showing up in my Twitter mentions last week, after I suggested Donald Trump supporters might not be the brightest bulbs. As I clicked around, I came to a shocking conclusion: I’ve been uncharacteristically downplaying the amount of racism and misogyny powering the right today. The spread of the epithet “cuckservative” is a sign that the crudest psycho-sexual insecurity animates the far right.

“Cuckservative,” you see, is short for a cuckolded conservative. It’s not about a Republican whose wife is cheating on him, but one whose country is being taken away from him, and who’s too cowardly to do anything about it.

We tend to treat things as new the moment it becomes a twitter hashtag. But the use of sexual metaphors and content to define Republicans who are not with the core contingent isn't something that is new; it has been used amongst republican and conservative groups to bash each other or those who are not the purist form of conservative for some time.

The first time I came across the usage of sexual terms to define other people, elected and hardened conservative Republicans didn't invoke the term Cuckservative. It was far more direct than that.  In 2005, several Kansas Republicans began a debate and called it "The Slippery Slope to Sodom" a discussion they held in many places as well as online through a newsletter series. Legislators and activists participated in this frank and sometimes accusatory discussion. Republicans who were not with the right wing on continued prosecution or boycotts of LGBT media were viewed or referred to as "whores". This later transitioned to "Sodom Supporters", a term which lasted in several conservative back and forths in Kansas as well as Missouri which I still hear now and again (as recently as the statehouse this year).

Now, conservatives have moved onto "Cuckservative". In the end, it is the use of sexual debasement to go after opposition that has existed for a VERY long time.. just never quite as out in the open.

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