Cuckservative

One definition of "cuckservative" is someone who is associated with the right-wing politics in contemporary America but also opposes white supremacy. According to Richard B. Spencer, Social conservatives use the term to condemn Republicans they accuse of running on socially conservative values to appeal to their base during an election cycle only to use vote trading to compromise on those values while in office and, thus, capitulate to liberal politicians and public sentiment. Some observers, such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, say that the term's usage was rising among white supremacists in the United States as of August 2015. Thus, "cuck" is said by various writers to project the insulter's own anxieties by insinuating that the target is weak or enjoys his humiliation. The term "cuckservative" is said to imply that certain Republicans are humiliated through their actions while feeling thrilled from their own degradation of others because of the "abandonment of their own moral standards". White supremacists have used the term to condemn white politicians who they say unknowingly promote "the interests of Jews and non-whites". The Anti-Defamation League says that the term is used by white supremacists as a synonym of the pre-existing phrase "race traitors". and a rallying cry for white supremacists and neoreactionaries. Carlos Esteban from Spain's conservative news site La Gaceta translated "cuckservative" to , stating that: "Republicans are nothing but the 'controlled opposition' completely in the hands of the political left, whose only aspiration is for those rare occasions when those hands pat them on the head, and the media rewards them with the coveted adjective 'moderate': these are the ." ==Use==

Jeet Heer of The New Republic wrote that the word is a "fine example of how the sound of a word can reinforce its meaning: abrasive on the ears, cuckservative appropriately enough has an ugly origin and meaning". The word was most popularly adopted in mid-2015 after some alt-right web users were disapproving of the attempts by John McCain, Jeb Bush, and other Republicans to establish more politically conservative positions, dubbing those who did "cuckservatives". Over a matter of weeks, the term then proceeded to attain usage additionally on social media and the wider internet. Writing for Hot Air, Taylor Millard criticized the word and its history of usage by white supremacists on the political right. He called it short-sighted, giving his opinion that Rand Paul's popularity at leading majority-black universities could make African Americans more conservative in the future. Matt Lewis, in The Daily Beast, gave his opinion that the word could become as popular with Republicans as "RINO" (Republican In Name Only), even if they were oblivious to its often fetish connotations. Writing in The Washington Post, David Weigel described the term as arising from disaffected elements of the right wing. ==See also==