cuckservative

[kuhk-sur-vuh-tiv]

noun

1. a political conservative who is viewed as weak, ineffectual, or overly moderate: used especially by the far right to describe mainstream conservatives.

adjective

1. being or relating to a political conservative who is viewed as weak, ineffectual, or overly moderate.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cuckservative¹

First recorded in 2005–10; cuck ( def. ) + (con)servative ( def. )

Example Sentences

Ryan understood there was no way to compete with that without becoming the Poindexter cuckservative par excellence, which is what happened to him anyway.

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He dismissed one Republican rival as a “cuckservative” and assailed David Hogg, the teen gun control activist, as “that punk” who has “been brainwashed.”

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Last year, Mr. Stewart used an alt-right slur, “cuckservative,” to suggest that an opponent in the Republican governor’s primary had failed to put the white race first.

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He also indulged the rhetoric of the “alt-right,” blasting Gillespie as a “cuckservative” during a question-and-answer session on Reddit, mingling online with some of Trump’s most fervent supporters.

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Indeed, as Slate’s Jamelle Bouie noted at the time, Stewart “was running as a voice for Trumpism, railing against ‘illegal immigration,’ condemning ‘transgender bathrooms,’ slamming Gillespie as a ‘cuckservative,’ and centering his campaign on an aggressive defense of the state’s Confederate monuments and memorials.”

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