Sweet Fancy Moses!

I’m glad my preferred Speaker-to-RWingers got around to an explainer on this sensitive topic, because I did not want to link to primary sources. Dave Weigel, in the Washington Post, on “‘Cuckservative’ — the conservative insult of the month“:

Late last week, a neologism was born. Twitter was the incubator. “Cuckservative,” a portmanteau of “conservative” and “cuckold” (i.e. a man whose wife has cheated on him) burned up Twitter as fans of Donald Trump’s politicking warred with the movement conservatives who opposed it.

RedState.com’s Erick Erickson, the Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis, and the team at the well-read conservative blog Ace of Spades were among the critics suddenly deluged with accusations of cuckservatism…

I’ll defer to Richard Spencer, president of the white nationalist National Policy Institute.

“#Cuckservative” is a full-scale revolt, by Identitarians and what I’ve called the ‘alt Right,’ against the Republican Party and conservative movement,” Spencer explained in an e-mail. “The ‘cuck’ slur is vulgar, yes, but then piercingly accurate. It is the cuckold who, whether knowingly or unknowingly, loses control of his future. This is an apt psychological portrait of white ‘conservatives,’ whose only identity is comprised of vague, abstract ‘values,’ and who are participating in the displacement of European Americans — their own children…

According to Spencer, “Trump is a major part of the ‘cuckservative’ phenomenon — but not because he himself is an Identitarian or traditionalist. His campaign is, in many ways, a backward-looking movement: ‘Let’s make America great again!’ Why Trump is attractive to Identitarians and the alt Right is: a) he is a tougher, superior man than ‘conservatives’ (which isn’t saying much), and b) he seems to grasp the demographic displacement of European-Americans on a visceral level. We see some hope there.”…

“Just look at them!” said Spencer. “Glenn Beck, Erik [sic] Erickson, Mike Huckabee. They’re mediocrities, or sub-mediocrities. They’re grinning, obese doofuses. No person with a deep soul — no person who wants to take part in a moment that’s idealistic, that’s going to change the world — would want to be a part of ‘conservatism.’ In a way, the current ‘cucks’ are the residue of the Bush era. They were the ‘conservative’ and ‘Religious Right’ allies of the neoconservatives. They’re still around, for no apparent reason.”…

Well, it’s always a fun time when Democracy’s enemies start turning on each other… Any odds on this neologism turning up during the Fox debates next week? And if so: “Serious contenders” debate, or the no-hoper “kiddy table” intro?
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Apart from a refreshing chug of brain bleach, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

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