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In the [[politics of the United States]], '''Republican In Name Only''' is a [[pejorative]] term applied to officials elected as members of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], but govern and legislate like [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]]. Similar terms have been used since the early 1900s. The term is an acronym invented in order so that it is abbreviated to '''RINO''' and pronounced to sound like "[[rhino]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=RINO - Neologisms|url=https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=2100|access-date=2020-11-15|website=neologisms.rice.edu}}</ref> The term became popular in the 1990s.
==Origins==
In 1912, former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], then-President [[William Howard Taft]], and Senator [[Robert M. La Follette]] fought for ideological control of the Republican Party and each denounced the other two as "not really Republican."{{citation needed|date=December 2010}} The phrase ''Republican in name only'' emerged as a popular political [[pejorative]] in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s.<ref name="Popik">{{cite web |title=RINO (Republican In Name Only) |url=http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/rino_republican_in_name_only |last=Popik |first=Barry |work=Big Apple Corner}}</ref>
The earliest known print appearance of the term ''RINO'' was in the [[Manchester, New Hampshire]] newspaper then called ''[[New Hampshire Union Leader|The Union Leader]]''.<!-- It was called "The Union Leader" until 2005. --><ref name="wordspy">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wordspy.com/words/rino.asp |title=RINO |work=Word spy |last=McFedries |first=Paul |publisher=Logophilia Limited |access-date=14 December 2010}}</ref>
{{quote |Bill Clinton would have been proud of what was happening on the third-floor Senate corner at the State House this week. ... The Republicans were moving out and the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] and "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only) were moving in. |[[John DiStaso]] |{{cite news |title=Merrill Taps Scamman, Strome and a Thomson |newspaper=[[New Hampshire Union Leader]] |date=December 31, 1992 }}}}
[[File:No RINO.svg|thumb|150px|alt=The word "RINO" inside a circle, with a red slash indicating negation|Celeste Greig's "No RINOs" button design]]Buttons featuring the red slash through an image of a [[rhinoceros]] were spotted in the [[New Hampshire State House]] as early as 1992.<ref name="Nashua">{{cite news |date=16 December 1992 |last=Landrigan |first=Kevin |author-link=Kevin Landrigan |title=Spirou's 'commitments' could disappear in February |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s5lKAAAAIBAJ&dq=rino%20republican%20name-only&pg=6245%2C3837269 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Nashua)|The Telegraph]] |location=[[Nashua, New Hampshire]] |publisher=Terrence Williams<!-- Not the basketball player. --> |page=21 |volume=123 |number=216 |quote=Button of the week: It's slowly making the rounds as circulation is small but the "RINO" (pronounced "Rhino") could become a collector's item. Pictured is naturally the animal with a [[Ghostbusters|Ghostbuster's]] slash through it.}}</ref> In 1993, future [[California Republican Assembly]] President Celeste Greig distributed buttons featuring a red slash over the word ''RINO'' to express opposition to Los Angeles mayor [[Richard Riordan]].<ref name="Popik" /> The term came into widespread usage during subsequent election cycles.
==Usage==
[[File:Ames Straw Poll RINO Hunter t-shirts (1093406441) (1).jpg|thumb|"RINO Hunter" shirts advertised for sale at the 2007 [[Iowa Straw Poll (1979–2011)|Iowa Straw Poll]]]]
[[File:Tea Party tax day protest 2010 (4525419563) - No More RINOs!.jpg|thumb|"No More RINOs!" sign at a 2010 [[Tea Party movement]] protest in Minnesota]]
During Republican [[Primary election|primary campaign]] season, some conservative organizations target ''RINO ''Republicans who fail to adopt their stances. [[National Federation of Republican Assemblies]] started the "RINO Hunters' Club", whom they believe to be too moderate on such issues as taxes, gun rights, and abortion.<ref name="cannibals">{{cite web |url=http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=221 |title=Republican Cannibals: Hunting for RINOs |date=27 August 2004 |publisher=[[The Nation]] |work=Agence Global |last=Nichols |first=John |author-link=John Nichols (journalist) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319163130/http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=221 |archive-date=19 March 2012}}</ref> The fiscally conservative [[501(c) organization|501(c)4]] organization [[Club for Growth]] invented the "RINO Watch" list to monitor "Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies"; other conservative groups published similar lists.
More recently, the term has been used to describe Republican critics of former President [[Donald Trump]], regardless of ideology, with Trump himself tweeting that Congressional Republicans who acknowledged Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US Presidential election are RINOs.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goldiner|first=Dave|title=Trump targets 25 'RINO's' in Congress who admit he lost election|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-trump-republican-congress-election-rino-20201205-lglsx7fte5govlpnz6vpsiiixu-story.html|access-date=2020-12-06|website=nydailynews.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Jordan|date=2020-12-05|title=Trump demands names of the congressional Republicans who said they recognize Biden as winner|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/528899-trump-demands-names-of-the-congressional-republicans-who-said-they|access-date=2020-12-06|website=TheHill|language=en}}</ref> Conversely, it has been frequently used by others to describe Trump himself.<ref>https://washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/20/bill-weld-donald-trump-rino/</ref><ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-rino-or-gray-rhino_b_578d26a9e4b05e7343a67f42</ref>
During the [[2020 presidential election in the United States]], President Trump used the term to refer to Georgia governor, [[Brian Kemp]], and Georgia Secretary of State, [[Brad Raffensperger]]. President Trump also used the term to refer to Maryland governor [[Larry Hogan]] in a tweet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cillizza|first=Chris|date=2020-11-17|title=Analysis: How this Republican became the most hated man in his party|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/brad-raffensperger-donald-trump-loeffler-perdue-georgia-recount/index.html|access-date=2020-11-22|website=[[CNN]]}}</ref>
==Similar terms==
While the term ''RINO'' is of recent coinage, the concept of being an inauthentic member of the Republican Party by not representing its more conservative faction is a recurring theme in Party history.
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===Me-too Republicans===
{{not to be confused|Me Too movement}}
In the 1930s and 1940s, ''Me-too Republicans'' described those running on a platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or moderating philosophical differences.<ref name="USAToday">{{cite news |title=Suspense, contrast missing in election countdown |last=Shapiro |first=Walter |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/shapiro/2002-10-29-hype_x.htm |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |date= 29 October 2002|access-date=14 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Assessing Last Week's Column |url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17702 |last=Blankley |first=Tony |date=25 October 2006 |access-date=14 December 2010 |publisher=[[Human Events]]}}</ref> An example is two-time presidential candidate [[Thomas E. Dewey]], who ran against the popular [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and his successor [[Harry Truman]]. Dewey did not oppose Roosevelt's [[New Deal]] programs altogether, but merely campaigned on the promise that Republicans would run them more efficiently and less corruptly.<!-- Still needs an example of someone calling Dewey a "Me-too Republican". -->
{{quote |Let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion which says, "of course we believe all these things, we believe in social-security, we believe in work for the unemployed, we believe in saving homes—cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the president's administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them—we will do more of them, we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything! |President and Democrat [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] |addressing a Democratic audience in New York, September 1936<ref name="optimists">{{cite web |title=Roosevelt and Reagan: Eternal Optimists |url=http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/?id=C0CA7C53-F153-5D40-EF3F207BB2A677F2&CFID=9282716&CFTOKEN=68294622 |first=Richard Norton |last=Smith |publisher=[[Gleaves Whitney#Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies|Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies]] |access-date=14 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527150758/http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/roosevelt-and-reagan-423.htm |archive-date=27 May 2012 |quote=In the 1936 election, FDR had a field day with so-called "me too" Republicans.}}</ref><ref name="FDRyoutube">{{cite AV media |people=Franklin D. Roosevelt |year=1936 |title=FDR 'Let Me Warn You' |language=en |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3aO_s0Yuv8 |access-date=December 1, 2019 |time=0:01 }}</ref> }}
From 1936 to 1976, the more [[centrist]] members of the Republican Party frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as [[Alf Landon]], [[Wendell Willkie]], [[Thomas E. Dewey]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]]. The mainstream of the Republican Party was generally supportive of the [[New Deal]]. In the 1950s, conservatives such as [[Robert A. Taft]] and [[Barry Goldwater]], who rallied against "me-too Republicans",<ref name="farewell">{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962804,00.html |title=Farewell to a Quartet of Kings of the Hill |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |publisher=[[Time, Inc.]] |date=10 November 1986}}</ref> were considered outside of the mainstream of the then-centrist GOP; serious consideration was given to leaving the GOP and forming a new conservative party in coalition with the [[Southern Democrats|"states' rights" Democrats]] of [[Southern United States|the South]].<ref name="Perlstein">{{cite book |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |title=Before the Storm |date=21 March 2001 |publisher=[[Hill and Wang]] |isbn=978-0-8090-2859-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/beforestormbarry0000perl/page/13 13] |quote=... the recipe for a new conservative party was plain: one part Midwestern Taft Republican, one part Southern states' rights Democrat. |url=https://archive.org/details/beforestormbarry0000perl/page/13 }}</ref>
===Nixonians and Rockefeller Republicans===
In the 1960s and 1970s, Republicans considered liberal on [[domestic policy]] but hawkish on [[foreign policy]] were sometimes called "[[Nixonian]]", or "[[Rockefeller Republican]]s".<ref name="Mommy">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/billsrun/mommy-whats-a-rino/ |title=Bill's Run: Overview: Mommy, What's a RINO? |work=Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas |publisher=PBS |year=2004 |access-date=November 26, 2016}}</ref> While the term ''Nixonian'' took on other meanings after the [[Watergate scandal]], neither expression had always been considered pejorative.
===Gypsy moth Republican===
In the 1980s, the term ''gypsy moth Republican'' described Republicans from the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] and [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] who voted against the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan administration]]'s proposed cuts in aid to economically distressed people, contrasting with [[Boll weevil (politics)|boll weevil Democrats]], who voted for these cuts.<ref name="Bangor">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19810921&id=4N00AAAAIBAJ&pg=4532,2205035&hl=en |title='Gypsy Moth Republicans' <!-- quotation marks from original --> |last=McManus |first=Michael J. |work=[[Bangor Daily News]] |date=September 21, 1981 |page=16 |volume=93 |number=97 |quote=What was needed was a Northern counterweight to the "Boll Weevil Democrats," some 50 Southerners who consistently voted with [President Reagan] to whack at [aid to economically distressed people] ... some 20 Frostbelt Republicans have decided to defect from their lockstop White House support ...|access-date=April 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Goddard">{{cite web |url=http://politicaldictionary.com/words/gypsy-moth-republican/ |title=Gypsy moth |last=Goddard |first=Taegan |website=Taegan Goddard's Political Dictionary |access-date=6 October 2015}}</ref> The [[gypsy moth]] is an [[invasive species]] destructive to trees in the Northeastern United States.<ref name=Goddard /><ref name="Wisconsin">{{cite web |title=Gypsy Moth |url=http://datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Gypsy_Moth/index.aspx |publisher=Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection |access-date=April 29, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831145736/http://datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Gypsy_Moth/index.aspx |archive-date=August 31, 2011 }}</ref>
===Cuckservative===
In 2015 the term ''[[cuckservative]]'', a [[portmanteau]] of ''[[cuckold]]'' and ''conservative'', was popularized on the online forum [[4chan]], and embraced by both [[internet troll]]s and the [[Nativism (politics)|nativist]] [[alt-right]].<ref name="NewRepublic" /><ref name="splcenter">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 7, 2015 |title=Getting Cucky: A Brief Primer On The Radical Right's Newest 'Cuckservative' Meme |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/08/07/getting-cucky-brief-primer-radical-right%E2%80%99s-newest-%E2%80%98cuckservative%E2%80%99-meme |newspaper=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=2015-08-21 |quote= ... spread fast across the radical right. And ... found its way into the political mainstream. ... White supremacists ... tailor its definition to further describe politicians who don't fall in line with the white nationalist cause.}}</ref><ref name="nytimes" /> The metaphorical "{{dfn|1=cuck|title=short for "cuckold"}}" is represented in a [[Cuckold#Cuckoldry as a fetish|genre]] of [[Ethnic pornography#Interracial pornography|interracial pornography]] as a masochistic white husband who allows his wife to have sex with a stronger black man, thereby participating in his own symbolic emasculation.<ref name="IBTimes">{{cite web|last=Kovacs |first=Kasla |title=What Is A Cuckservative? Alt-Right Insult Used By White Nationalists To Describe The Republican Establishment |date=14 February 2017 |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/what-cuckservative-alt-right-insult-used-white-nationalists-describe-republican-2491918 |quote=Cuckold pornography portrays a white man watching his wife have sex with another man — usually well-endowed, and usually black. |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="NatReviewCorner">{{cite web |last=Nordlinger |first=Jay |author-link=Jay Nordlinger |title=What Is a Conservative? |date=19 February 2017 |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-conservative-question-c-pac-and-milo-yiannopoulos/ |website=[[National Review]] |quote="The idea is, white conservative men enjoy seeing their wives have sexual relations with dark-skinned men, for the purpose of making the country at large darker." |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="NewRepublic">{{cite news |last=Heer |first=Jeet |date=July 26, 2015 |title=Conservatives Are Holding a Conversation About Race |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/122372/conservatives-are-holding-conversation-about-race |newspaper=New Republic |access-date=2015-08-21}}</ref><ref name="Crackup">{{cite web|last1=Walsh|first1=Joan|author-link=Joan Walsh| title=The GOP crack-up continues|date=3 August 2015|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/the_gop_crack_up_continues_the_raging_civil_war_over_the_disgusting_%E2%80%9Ccuckservative%E2%80%9D_slur/|website=Salon|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Behind The Racist Hashtag That Is Blowing Up Twitter">{{cite web|last1=Bernstein|first1=Joseph|title=Behind The Racist Hashtag That Is Blowing Up Twitter|date=27 July 2015 |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/behind-the-racist-hashtag-some-donald-trump-fans-love#.tfxNevKpWb|website=[[BuzzFeed]]|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref> In [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] vernacular the term is an accusation of yielding to non-white interests on issues such as [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]] or [[modern display of the Confederate flag]];<ref name="splcenter" /><ref name="WAPOcuck">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/29/cuckservative-the-conservative-insult-of-the-month-explained/ |title='Cuckservative' – the conservative insult of the month, explained |last=Weigel |first=David |author-link=David Weigel |work=The Washington Post |date=July 29, 2015 }}</ref> however, the term gained use (with some controversy)<ref name="NewRepublic" /><ref name="splcenter" /><ref name="nytimes" /> by more mainstream conservatives to denounce Republicans whose compromises included [[vote trading]], rhetorical restraint in deference to donors, cooperation with Democrats on any particular initiative, or attempting to court voters by making appeals to supposedly liberal ideals.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |last=Rappeport |first=Alan |date=August 13, 2015 |title=From the Right, a New Slur for G.O.P. Candidates |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/from-the-right-a-new-slur-for-gop-candidates.html |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=2015-08-21 |quote=The radical nature of those ideas along with the pornographic connotations associated with "cuckold" have made the word a subject of hand-wringing among some conservative commentators.}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Yuhas |first=Alan |date=August 13, 2015 |title='Cuckservative': the internet's latest Republican insult hits where it hurts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/13/cuckservative-republicans-conservatives-jeb-bush |newspaper=The Guardian |quote=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. |access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Blue Dog Coalition]]
* [[Democrat In Name Only]]
* [[Half-Breeds (politics)]]
* [[Never Trump movement]]
* [[No True Scotsman]]
* [[Ripon Society]]
* [[Republican Voters Against Trump]]
* [[Stalwart (politics)]]
* [[The Lincoln Project]]
==References==
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{{Redirect|RINO|other uses|Rino (disambiguation){{!}}Rino}}
[[File:Logo RINO.svg|thumb|alt=Rhinoceros logo (instead of elephant)|Republican In Name Only parody logo]]
In the [[politics of the United States]], '''Republican In Name Only''' is a [[pejorative]] term applied to officials elected as members of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], but govern and legislate like [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]]. Similar terms have been used since the early 1900s. The term is an acronym invented in order so that it is abbreviated to '''RINO''' and pronounced to sound like "[[rhino]]".<ref>{{Cite web|title=RINO - Neologisms|url=https://neologisms.rice.edu/index.php?a=term&d=1&t=2100|access-date=2020-11-15|website=neologisms.rice.edu}}</ref> The term became popular in the 1990s.
==Origins==
In 1912, former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], then-President [[William Howard Taft]], and Senator [[Robert M. La Follette]] fought for ideological control of the Republican Party and each denounced the other two as "not really Republican."{{citation needed|date=December 2010}} The phrase ''Republican in name only'' emerged as a popular political [[pejorative]] in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s.<ref name="Popik">{{cite web |title=RINO (Republican In Name Only) |url=http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/rino_republican_in_name_only |last=Popik |first=Barry |work=Big Apple Corner}}</ref>
The earliest known print appearance of the term ''RINO'' was in the [[Manchester, New Hampshire]] newspaper then called ''[[New Hampshire Union Leader|The Union Leader]]''.<!-- It was called "The Union Leader" until 2005. --><ref name="wordspy">{{Cite web |url=http://www.wordspy.com/words/rino.asp |title=RINO |work=Word spy |last=McFedries |first=Paul |publisher=Logophilia Limited |access-date=14 December 2010}}</ref>
{{quote |Bill Clinton would have been proud of what was happening on the third-floor Senate corner at the State House this week. ... The Republicans were moving out and the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] and "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only) were moving in. |[[John DiStaso]] |{{cite news |title=Merrill Taps Scamman, Strome and a Thomson |newspaper=[[New Hampshire Union Leader]] |date=December 31, 1992 }}}}
[[File:No RINO.svg|thumb|150px|alt=The word "RINO" inside a circle, with a red slash indicating negation|Celeste Greig's "No RINOs" button design]]Buttons featuring the red slash through an image of a [[rhinoceros]] were spotted in the [[New Hampshire State House]] as early as 1992.<ref name="Nashua">{{cite news |date=16 December 1992 |last=Landrigan |first=Kevin |author-link=Kevin Landrigan |title=Spirou's 'commitments' could disappear in February |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s5lKAAAAIBAJ&dq=rino%20republican%20name-only&pg=6245%2C3837269 |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Nashua)|The Telegraph]] |location=[[Nashua, New Hampshire]] |publisher=Terrence Williams<!-- Not the basketball player. --> |page=21 |volume=123 |number=216 |quote=Button of the week: It's slowly making the rounds as circulation is small but the "RINO" (pronounced "Rhino") could become a collector's item. Pictured is naturally the animal with a [[Ghostbusters|Ghostbuster's]] slash through it.}}</ref> In 1993, future [[California Republican Assembly]] President Celeste Greig distributed buttons featuring a red slash over the word ''RINO'' to express opposition to Los Angeles mayor [[Richard Riordan]].<ref name="Popik" /> The term came into widespread usage during subsequent election cycles.
==Usage==
[[File:Ames Straw Poll RINO Hunter t-shirts (1093406441) (1).jpg|thumb|"RINO Hunter" shirts advertised for sale at the 2007 [[Iowa Straw Poll (1979–2011)|Iowa Straw Poll]]]]
[[File:Tea Party tax day protest 2010 (4525419563) - No More RINOs!.jpg|thumb|"No More RINOs!" sign at a 2010 [[Tea Party movement]] protest in Minnesota]]
During Republican [[Primary election|primary campaign]] season, some conservative organizations target ''RINO ''Republicans who fail to adopt their stances. [[National Federation of Republican Assemblies]] started the "RINO Hunters' Club", whom they believe to be too moderate on such issues as taxes, gun rights, and abortion.<ref name="cannibals">{{cite web |url=http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=221 |title=Republican Cannibals: Hunting for RINOs |date=27 August 2004 |publisher=[[The Nation]] |work=Agence Global |last=Nichols |first=John |author-link=John Nichols (journalist) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319163130/http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=221 |archive-date=19 March 2012}}</ref> The fiscally conservative [[501(c) organization|501(c)4]] organization [[Club for Growth]] invented the "RINO Watch" list to monitor "Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies"; other conservative groups published similar lists.
More recently, the term has been used to describe Republican critics of former President [[Donald Trump]], regardless of ideology, with Trump himself tweeting that Congressional Republicans who acknowledged Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US Presidential election are RINOs.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Goldiner|first=Dave|title=Trump targets 25 'RINO's' in Congress who admit he lost election|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/us-elections-government/ny-trump-republican-congress-election-rino-20201205-lglsx7fte5govlpnz6vpsiiixu-story.html|access-date=2020-12-06|website=nydailynews.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Jordan|date=2020-12-05|title=Trump demands names of the congressional Republicans who said they recognize Biden as winner|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/528899-trump-demands-names-of-the-congressional-republicans-who-said-they|access-date=2020-12-06|website=TheHill|language=en}}</ref> Conversely, it has been frequently used by others to describe Trump himself.<ref>https://washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/20/bill-weld-donald-trump-rino/</ref><ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-rino-or-gray-rhino_b_578d26a9e4b05e7343a67f42</ref>
During the [[2020 presidential election in the United States]], President Trump used the term to refer to Georgia governor, [[Brian Kemp]], and Georgia Secretary of State, [[Brad Raffensperger]]. President Trump also used the term to refer to Maryland governor [[Larry Hogan]] in a tweet.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Cillizza|first=Chris|date=2020-11-17|title=Analysis: How this Republican became the most hated man in his party|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/17/politics/brad-raffensperger-donald-trump-loeffler-perdue-georgia-recount/index.html|access-date=2020-11-22|website=[[CNN]]}}</ref>
==Similar terms==
While the term ''RINO'' is of recent coinage, the concept of being an inauthentic member of the Republican Party by not representing its more conservative faction is a recurring theme in Party history.
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===Me-too Republicans===
{{not to be confused|Me Too movement}}
In the 1930s and 1940s, ''Me-too Republicans'' described those running on a platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or moderating philosophical differences.<ref name="USAToday">{{cite news |title=Suspense, contrast missing in election countdown |last=Shapiro |first=Walter |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/shapiro/2002-10-29-hype_x.htm |newspaper=[[USA Today]] |date= 29 October 2002|access-date=14 December 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Assessing Last Week's Column |url=http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17702 |last=Blankley |first=Tony |date=25 October 2006 |access-date=14 December 2010 |publisher=[[Human Events]]}}</ref> An example is two-time presidential candidate [[Thomas E. Dewey]], who ran against the popular [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and his successor [[Harry Truman]]. Dewey did not oppose Roosevelt's [[New Deal]] programs altogether, but merely campaigned on the promise that Republicans would run them more efficiently and less corruptly.<!-- Still needs an example of someone calling Dewey a "Me-too Republican". -->
{{quote |Let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion which says, "of course we believe all these things, we believe in social-security, we believe in work for the unemployed, we believe in saving homes—cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the president's administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them—we will do more of them, we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything! |President and Democrat [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] |addressing a Democratic audience in New York, September 1936<ref name="optimists">{{cite web |title=Roosevelt and Reagan: Eternal Optimists |url=http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/?id=C0CA7C53-F153-5D40-EF3F207BB2A677F2&CFID=9282716&CFTOKEN=68294622 |first=Richard Norton |last=Smith |publisher=[[Gleaves Whitney#Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies|Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies]] |access-date=14 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527150758/http://www.gvsu.edu/hauenstein/roosevelt-and-reagan-423.htm |archive-date=27 May 2012 |quote=In the 1936 election, FDR had a field day with so-called "me too" Republicans.}}</ref><ref name="FDRyoutube">{{cite AV media |people=Franklin D. Roosevelt |year=1936 |title=FDR 'Let Me Warn You' |language=en |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3aO_s0Yuv8 |access-date=December 1, 2019 |time=0:01 }}</ref> }}
From 1936 to 1976, the more [[centrist]] members of the Republican Party frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as [[Alf Landon]], [[Wendell Willkie]], [[Thomas E. Dewey]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Gerald Ford]]. The mainstream of the Republican Party was generally supportive of the [[New Deal]]. In the 1950s, conservatives such as [[Robert A. Taft]] and [[Barry Goldwater]], who rallied against "me-too Republicans",<ref name="farewell">{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,962804,00.html |title=Farewell to a Quartet of Kings of the Hill |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |publisher=[[Time, Inc.]] |date=10 November 1986}}</ref> were considered outside of the mainstream of the then-centrist GOP; serious consideration was given to leaving the GOP and forming a new conservative party in coalition with the [[Southern Democrats|"states' rights" Democrats]] of [[Southern United States|the South]].<ref name="Perlstein">{{cite book |last=Perlstein |first=Rick |title=Before the Storm |date=21 March 2001 |publisher=[[Hill and Wang]] |isbn=978-0-8090-2859-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/beforestormbarry0000perl/page/13 13] |quote=... the recipe for a new conservative party was plain: one part Midwestern Taft Republican, one part Southern states' rights Democrat. |url=https://archive.org/details/beforestormbarry0000perl/page/13 }}</ref>
===Nixonians and Rockefeller Republicans===
In the 1960s and 1970s, Republicans considered liberal on [[domestic policy]] but hawkish on [[foreign policy]] were sometimes called "[[Nixonian]]", or "[[Rockefeller Republican]]s".<ref name="Mommy">{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/billsrun/mommy-whats-a-rino/ |title=Bill's Run: Overview: Mommy, What's a RINO? |work=Bill's Run: A Political Journey in Rural Kansas |publisher=PBS |year=2004 |access-date=November 26, 2016}}</ref> While the term ''Nixonian'' took on other meanings after the [[Watergate scandal]], neither expression had always been considered pejorative.
===Gypsy moth Republican===
In the 1980s, the term ''gypsy moth Republican'' described Republicans from the [[Northeastern United States|Northeast]] and [[Midwestern United States|Midwest]] who voted against the [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan administration]]'s proposed cuts in aid to economically distressed people, contrasting with [[Boll weevil (politics)|boll weevil Democrats]], who voted for these cuts.<ref name="Bangor">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19810921&id=4N00AAAAIBAJ&pg=4532,2205035&hl=en |title='Gypsy Moth Republicans' <!-- quotation marks from original --> |last=McManus |first=Michael J. |work=[[Bangor Daily News]] |date=September 21, 1981 |page=16 |volume=93 |number=97 |quote=What was needed was a Northern counterweight to the "Boll Weevil Democrats," some 50 Southerners who consistently voted with [President Reagan] to whack at [aid to economically distressed people] ... some 20 Frostbelt Republicans have decided to defect from their lockstop White House support ...|access-date=April 28, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Goddard">{{cite web |url=http://politicaldictionary.com/words/gypsy-moth-republican/ |title=Gypsy moth |last=Goddard |first=Taegan |website=Taegan Goddard's Political Dictionary |access-date=6 October 2015}}</ref> The [[gypsy moth]] is an [[invasive species]] destructive to trees in the Northeastern United States.<ref name=Goddard /><ref name="Wisconsin">{{cite web |title=Gypsy Moth |url=http://datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Gypsy_Moth/index.aspx |publisher=Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection |access-date=April 29, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831145736/http://datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Gypsy_Moth/index.aspx |archive-date=August 31, 2011 }}</ref>
===Cuckservative===
In 2015 the term ''[[cuckservative]]'', a [[portmanteau]] of ''[[cuckold]]'' and ''conservative'', was popularized on the online forum [[4chan]], and embraced by both [[internet troll]]s and the [[Nativism (politics)|nativist]] [[alt-right]].<ref name="NewRepublic" /><ref name="splcenter">{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=August 7, 2015 |title=Getting Cucky: A Brief Primer On The Radical Right's Newest 'Cuckservative' Meme |url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/08/07/getting-cucky-brief-primer-radical-right%E2%80%99s-newest-%E2%80%98cuckservative%E2%80%99-meme |newspaper=Southern Poverty Law Center |access-date=2015-08-21 |quote= ... spread fast across the radical right. And ... found its way into the political mainstream. ... White supremacists ... tailor its definition to further describe politicians who don't fall in line with the white nationalist cause.}}</ref><ref name="nytimes" /> The metaphorical "{{dfn|1=cuck|title=short for "cuckold"}}" is represented in a [[Cuckold#Cuckoldry as a fetish|genre]] of [[Ethnic pornography#Interracial pornography|interracial pornography]] as a masochistic white husband who allows his wife to have sex with a stronger black man, thereby participating in his own symbolic emasculation.<ref name="IBTimes">{{cite web|last=Kovacs |first=Kasla |title=What Is A Cuckservative? Alt-Right Insult Used By White Nationalists To Describe The Republican Establishment |date=14 February 2017 |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/what-cuckservative-alt-right-insult-used-white-nationalists-describe-republican-2491918 |quote=Cuckold pornography portrays a white man watching his wife have sex with another man — usually well-endowed, and usually black. |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="NatReviewCorner">{{cite web |last=Nordlinger |first=Jay |author-link=Jay Nordlinger |title=What Is a Conservative? |date=19 February 2017 |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-conservative-question-c-pac-and-milo-yiannopoulos/ |website=[[National Review]] |quote="The idea is, white conservative men enjoy seeing their wives have sexual relations with dark-skinned men, for the purpose of making the country at large darker." |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref><ref name="NewRepublic">{{cite news |last=Heer |first=Jeet |date=July 26, 2015 |title=Conservatives Are Holding a Conversation About Race |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/122372/conservatives-are-holding-conversation-about-race |newspaper=New Republic |access-date=2015-08-21}}</ref><ref name="Crackup">{{cite web|last1=Walsh|first1=Joan|author-link=Joan Walsh| title=The GOP crack-up continues|date=3 August 2015|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/08/03/the_gop_crack_up_continues_the_raging_civil_war_over_the_disgusting_%E2%80%9Ccuckservative%E2%80%9D_slur/|website=Salon|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref><ref name="Behind The Racist Hashtag That Is Blowing Up Twitter">{{cite web|last1=Bernstein|first1=Joseph|title=Behind The Racist Hashtag That Is Blowing Up Twitter|date=27 July 2015 |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/behind-the-racist-hashtag-some-donald-trump-fans-love#.tfxNevKpWb|website=[[BuzzFeed]]|access-date=18 November 2015}}</ref> In [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] vernacular the term is an accusation of yielding to non-white interests on issues such as [[Immigration to the United States|immigration]] or [[modern display of the Confederate flag]];<ref name="splcenter" /><ref name="WAPOcuck">{{cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/29/cuckservative-the-conservative-insult-of-the-month-explained/ |title='Cuckservative' – the conservative insult of the month, explained |last=Weigel |first=David |author-link=David Weigel |work=The Washington Post |date=July 29, 2015 }}</ref> however, the term gained use (with some controversy)<ref name="NewRepublic" /><ref name="splcenter" /><ref name="nytimes" /> by more mainstream conservatives to denounce Republicans whose compromises included [[vote trading]], rhetorical restraint in deference to donors, cooperation with Democrats on any particular initiative, or attempting to court voters by making appeals to supposedly liberal ideals.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |last=Rappeport |first=Alan |date=August 13, 2015 |title=From the Right, a New Slur for G.O.P. Candidates |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/from-the-right-a-new-slur-for-gop-candidates.html |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=2015-08-21 |quote=The radical nature of those ideas along with the pornographic connotations associated with "cuckold" have made the word a subject of hand-wringing among some conservative commentators.}}</ref><ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Yuhas |first=Alan |date=August 13, 2015 |title='Cuckservative': the internet's latest Republican insult hits where it hurts |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/13/cuckservative-republicans-conservatives-jeb-bush |newspaper=The Guardian |quote=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. |access-date=2016-05-03}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Blue Dog Coalition]]
* [[Democrat In Name Only]]
* [[Half-Breeds (politics)]]
* [[Never Trump movement]]
* [[No True Scotsman]]
* [[Ripon Society]]
* [[Republican Voters Against Trump]]
* [[Stalwart (politics)]]
* [[The Lincoln Project]]
==References==
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<p>In the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Politics_of_the_United_States" title="Politics of the United States">politics of the United States</a>, <b>Republican In Name Only</b> is a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pejorative" title="Pejorative">pejorative</a> term applied to officials elected as members of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, but govern and legislate like <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a>. Similar terms have been used since the early 1900s. The term is an acronym invented in order so that it is abbreviated to <b>RINO</b> and pronounced to sound like "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rhino" class="mw-redirect" title="Rhino">rhino</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The term became popular in the 1990s.
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Origins"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Origins</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Usage"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Usage</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Similar_terms"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Similar terms</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Me-too_Republicans"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Me-too Republicans</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Nixonians_and_Rockefeller_Republicans"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Nixonians and Rockefeller Republicans</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Gypsy_moth_Republican"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Gypsy moth Republican</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Cuckservative"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">Cuckservative</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Origins">Origins</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>In 1912, former President <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, then-President <a href="/enwiki/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a>, and Senator <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Robert_M._La_Follette" title="Robert M. La Follette">Robert M. La Follette</a> fought for ideological control of the Republican Party and each denounced the other two as "not really Republican."<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> The phrase <i>Republican in name only</i> emerged as a popular political <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Pejorative" title="Pejorative">pejorative</a> in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-Popik_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Popik-2">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p>The earliest known print appearance of the term <i>RINO</i> was in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire" title="Manchester, New Hampshire">Manchester, New Hampshire</a> newspaper then called <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Hampshire_Union_Leader" title="New Hampshire Union Leader">The Union Leader</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-wordspy_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wordspy-3">[3]</a></sup>
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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r996844942">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Bill Clinton would have been proud of what was happening on the third-floor Senate corner at the State House this week. ... The Republicans were moving out and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> and "RINOs" (Republicans In Name Only) were moving in. </p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite><a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_DiStaso" title="John DiStaso">John DiStaso</a>, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r999302996">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:linear-gradient(transparent,transparent),url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}</style><cite class="citation news cs1">"Merrill Taps Scamman, Strome and a Thomson". <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Hampshire_Union_Leader" title="New Hampshire Union Leader">New Hampshire Union Leader</a></i>. December 31, 1992.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=New+Hampshire+Union+Leader&rft.atitle=Merrill+Taps+Scamman%2C+Strome+and+a+Thomson&rft.date=1992-12-31&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+In+Name+Only" class="Z3988"></span></cite></div></blockquote>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:No_RINO.svg" class="image"><img alt="The word "RINO" inside a circle, with a red slash indicating negation" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/No_RINO.svg/150px-No_RINO.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/No_RINO.svg/225px-No_RINO.svg.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/No_RINO.svg/300px-No_RINO.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="500" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:No_RINO.svg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Celeste Greig's "No RINOs" button design</div></div></div><p>Buttons featuring the red slash through an image of a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rhinoceros" title="Rhinoceros">rhinoceros</a> were spotted in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Hampshire_State_House" title="New Hampshire State House">New Hampshire State House</a> as early as 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-Nashua_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nashua-4">[4]</a></sup> In 1993, future <a href="/enwiki/wiki/California_Republican_Assembly" title="California Republican Assembly">California Republican Assembly</a> President Celeste Greig distributed buttons featuring a red slash over the word <i>RINO</i> to express opposition to Los Angeles mayor <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Richard_Riordan" title="Richard Riordan">Richard Riordan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Popik_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Popik-2">[2]</a></sup> The term came into widespread usage during subsequent election cycles.
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<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:222px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_(1093406441)_(1).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_%281093406441%29_%281%29.jpg/220px-Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_%281093406441%29_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="thumbimage" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_%281093406441%29_%281%29.jpg/330px-Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_%281093406441%29_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_%281093406441%29_%281%29.jpg/440px-Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_%281093406441%29_%281%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="445" data-file-height="450" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Ames_Straw_Poll_RINO_Hunter_t-shirts_(1093406441)_(1).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>"RINO Hunter" shirts advertised for sale at the 2007 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Iowa_Straw_Poll_(1979%E2%80%932011)" title="Iowa Straw Poll (1979–2011)">Iowa Straw Poll</a></div></div></div>
<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:198px;"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Tea_Party_tax_day_protest_2010_(4525419563)_-_No_More_RINOs!.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Tea_Party_tax_day_protest_2010_%284525419563%29_-_No_More_RINOs%21.jpg" decoding="async" width="196" height="160" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="196" data-file-height="160" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Tea_Party_tax_day_protest_2010_(4525419563)_-_No_More_RINOs!.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>"No More RINOs!" sign at a 2010 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement">Tea Party movement</a> protest in Minnesota</div></div></div>
<p>During Republican <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Primary_election" title="Primary election">primary campaign</a> season, some conservative organizations target <i>RINO </i>Republicans who fail to adopt their stances. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/National_Federation_of_Republican_Assemblies" title="National Federation of Republican Assemblies">National Federation of Republican Assemblies</a> started the "RINO Hunters' Club", whom they believe to be too moderate on such issues as taxes, gun rights, and abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-cannibals_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cannibals-5">[5]</a></sup> The fiscally conservative <a href="/enwiki/wiki/501(c)_organization" title="501(c) organization">501(c)4</a> organization <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Club_for_Growth" title="Club for Growth">Club for Growth</a> invented the "RINO Watch" list to monitor "Republican office holders around the nation who have advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free market policies"; other conservative groups published similar lists.
</p><p>More recently, the term has been used to describe Republican critics of former President <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, regardless of ideology, with Trump himself tweeting that Congressional Republicans who acknowledged Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US Presidential election are RINOs.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup> Conversely, it has been frequently used by others to describe Trump himself.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup>
</p><p>During the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/2020_presidential_election_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 presidential election in the United States">2020 presidential election in the United States</a>, President Trump used the term to refer to Georgia governor, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brian_Kemp" title="Brian Kemp">Brian Kemp</a>, and Georgia Secretary of State, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Brad_Raffensperger" title="Brad Raffensperger">Brad Raffensperger</a>. President Trump also used the term to refer to Maryland governor <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Larry_Hogan" title="Larry Hogan">Larry Hogan</a> in a tweet.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Similar_terms">Similar terms</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Similar terms">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>While the term <i>RINO</i> is of recent coinage, the concept of being an inauthentic member of the Republican Party by not representing its more conservative faction is a recurring theme in Party history.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Me-too_Republicans">Me-too Republicans</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Me-too Republicans">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Me_Too_movement" title="Me Too movement">Me Too movement</a>.</div>
<p>In the 1930s and 1940s, <i>Me-too Republicans</i> described those running on a platform of agreeing with the Democratic Party, proclaiming only minor or moderating philosophical differences.<sup id="cite_ref-USAToday_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USAToday-11">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a></sup> An example is two-time presidential candidate <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Thomas E. Dewey</a>, who ran against the popular <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> and his successor <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="mw-redirect" title="Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a>. Dewey did not oppose Roosevelt's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> programs altogether, but merely campaigned on the promise that Republicans would run them more efficiently and less corruptly.
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<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r996844942"/><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Let me warn the nation, against the smooth evasion which says, "of course we believe all these things, we believe in social-security, we believe in work for the unemployed, we believe in saving homes—cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the president's administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them—we will do more of them, we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything! </p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>President and Democrat <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, addressing a Democratic audience in New York, September 1936<sup id="cite_ref-optimists_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-optimists-13">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FDRyoutube_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FDRyoutube-14">[14]</a></sup></cite></div></blockquote>
<p>From 1936 to 1976, the more <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Centrist" class="mw-redirect" title="Centrist">centrist</a> members of the Republican Party frequently won the national nomination with candidates such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alf_Landon" title="Alf Landon">Alf Landon</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wendell_Willkie" title="Wendell Willkie">Wendell Willkie</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Thomas_E._Dewey" title="Thomas E. Dewey">Thomas E. Dewey</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower" title="Dwight D. Eisenhower">Dwight D. Eisenhower</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gerald_Ford" title="Gerald Ford">Gerald Ford</a>. The mainstream of the Republican Party was generally supportive of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>. In the 1950s, conservatives such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Robert_A._Taft" title="Robert A. Taft">Robert A. Taft</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a>, who rallied against "me-too Republicans",<sup id="cite_ref-farewell_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-farewell-15">[15]</a></sup> were considered outside of the mainstream of the then-centrist GOP; serious consideration was given to leaving the GOP and forming a new conservative party in coalition with the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Southern_Democrats" title="Southern Democrats">"states' rights" Democrats</a> of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">the South</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Perlstein_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Perlstein-16">[16]</a></sup>
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<p>In the 1960s and 1970s, Republicans considered liberal on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Domestic_policy" title="Domestic policy">domestic policy</a> but hawkish on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Foreign_policy" title="Foreign policy">foreign policy</a> were sometimes called "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nixonian" class="mw-redirect" title="Nixonian">Nixonian</a>", or "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican" title="Rockefeller Republican">Rockefeller Republicans</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Mommy_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mommy-17">[17]</a></sup> While the term <i>Nixonian</i> took on other meanings after the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Watergate_scandal" title="Watergate scandal">Watergate scandal</a>, neither expression had always been considered pejorative.
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Gypsy_moth_Republican">Gypsy moth Republican</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Gypsy moth Republican">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>In the 1980s, the term <i>gypsy moth Republican</i> described Republicans from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeast</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwest</a> who voted against the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan" title="Presidency of Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan administration</a>'s proposed cuts in aid to economically distressed people, contrasting with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Boll_weevil_(politics)" title="Boll weevil (politics)">boll weevil Democrats</a>, who voted for these cuts.<sup id="cite_ref-Bangor_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bangor-18">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Goddard_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goddard-19">[19]</a></sup> The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gypsy_moth" class="mw-redirect" title="Gypsy moth">gypsy moth</a> is an <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Invasive_species" title="Invasive species">invasive species</a> destructive to trees in the Northeastern United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Goddard_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Goddard-19">[19]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wisconsin_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wisconsin-20">[20]</a></sup>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Cuckservative">Cuckservative</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Cuckservative">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3>
<p>In 2015 the term <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuckservative" title="Cuckservative">cuckservative</a></i>, a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Portmanteau" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> of <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuckold" title="Cuckold">cuckold</a></i> and <i>conservative</i>, was popularized on the online forum <a href="/enwiki/wiki/4chan" title="4chan">4chan</a>, and embraced by both <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Internet_troll" title="Internet troll">internet trolls</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nativism_(politics)" title="Nativism (politics)">nativist</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Alt-right" title="Alt-right">alt-right</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NewRepublic_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewRepublic-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-splcenter_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-splcenter-22">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-23">[23]</a></sup> The metaphorical " <dfn title="short for "cuckold"" class="explain">cuck</dfn>" is represented in a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cuckold#Cuckoldry_as_a_fetish" title="Cuckold">genre</a> of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ethnic_pornography#Interracial_pornography" title="Ethnic pornography">interracial pornography</a> as a masochistic white husband who allows his wife to have sex with a stronger black man, thereby participating in his own symbolic emasculation.<sup id="cite_ref-IBTimes_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IBTimes-24">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NatReviewCorner_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NatReviewCorner-25">[25]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NewRepublic_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewRepublic-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Crackup_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crackup-26">[26]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Behind_The_Racist_Hashtag_That_Is_Blowing_Up_Twitter_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Behind_The_Racist_Hashtag_That_Is_Blowing_Up_Twitter-27">[27]</a></sup> In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/White_supremacy" title="White supremacy">white supremacist</a> vernacular the term is an accusation of yielding to non-white interests on issues such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_States" title="Immigration to the United States">immigration</a> or <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Modern_display_of_the_Confederate_flag" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern display of the Confederate flag">modern display of the Confederate flag</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-splcenter_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-splcenter-22">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WAPOcuck_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WAPOcuck-28">[28]</a></sup> however, the term gained use (with some controversy)<sup id="cite_ref-NewRepublic_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewRepublic-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-splcenter_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-splcenter-22">[22]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-23">[23]</a></sup> by more mainstream conservatives to denounce Republicans whose compromises included <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Vote_trading" title="Vote trading">vote trading</a>, rhetorical restraint in deference to donors, cooperation with Democrats on any particular initiative, or attempting to court voters by making appeals to supposedly liberal ideals.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_23-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-23">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-29">[29]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Blue_Dog_Coalition" title="Blue Dog Coalition">Blue Dog Coalition</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Democrat_In_Name_Only" title="Democrat In Name Only">Democrat In Name Only</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Half-Breeds_(politics)" title="Half-Breeds (politics)">Half-Breeds (politics)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Never_Trump_movement" title="Never Trump movement">Never Trump movement</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/No_True_Scotsman" class="mw-redirect" title="No True Scotsman">No True Scotsman</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ripon_Society" title="Ripon Society">Ripon Society</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Republican_Voters_Against_Trump" title="Republican Voters Against Trump">Republican Voters Against Trump</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Stalwart_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalwart (politics)">Stalwart (politics)</a></li>
<li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Lincoln_Project" title="The Lincoln Project">The Lincoln Project</a></li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Republican_In_Name_Only&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References">edit source</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-Bangor-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bangor_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFMcManus1981" class="citation news cs1">McManus, Michael J. (September 21, 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19810921&id=4N00AAAAIBAJ&pg=4532,2205035&hl=en">"<span class="cs1-kern-left">'</span>Gypsy Moth Republicans<span class="cs1-kern-right">'</span>"</a>. <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bangor_Daily_News" title="Bangor Daily News">Bangor Daily News</a></i>. <b>93</b> (97). p. 16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 28,</span> 2016</span>. <q>What was needed was a Northern counterweight to the "Boll Weevil Democrats," some 50 Southerners who consistently voted with [President Reagan] to whack at [aid to economically distressed people] ... some 20 Frostbelt Republicans have decided to defect from their lockstop White House support ...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bangor+Daily+News&rft.atitle=%27Gypsy+Moth+Republicans%27&rft.volume=93&rft.issue=97&rft.pages=16&rft.date=1981-09-21&rft.aulast=McManus&rft.aufirst=Michael+J.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fnid%3D2457%26dat%3D19810921%26id%3D4N00AAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D4532%2C2205035%26hl%3Den&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+In+Name+Only" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Wisconsin-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Wisconsin_20-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110831145736/http://datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Gypsy_Moth/index.aspx">"Gypsy Moth"</a>. Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://datcp.wi.gov/Environment/Gypsy_Moth/index.aspx">the original</a> on August 31, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">April 29,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Gypsy+Moth&rft.pub=Wisconsin+Department+of+Agriculture%2C+Trade+and+Consumer+Protection&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdatcp.wi.gov%2FEnvironment%2FGypsy_Moth%2Findex.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+In+Name+Only" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-IBTimes-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-IBTimes_24-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFKovacs2017" class="citation web cs1">Kovacs, Kasla (14 February 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibtimes.com/what-cuckservative-alt-right-insult-used-white-nationalists-describe-republican-2491918">"What Is A Cuckservative? Alt-Right Insult Used By White Nationalists To Describe The Republican Establishment"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 February</span> 2020</span>. <q>Cuckold pornography portrays a white man watching his wife have sex with another man — usually well-endowed, and usually black.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=What+Is+A+Cuckservative%3F+Alt-Right+Insult+Used+By+White+Nationalists+To+Describe+The+Republican+Establishment&rft.date=2017-02-14&rft.aulast=Kovacs&rft.aufirst=Kasla&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibtimes.com%2Fwhat-cuckservative-alt-right-insult-used-white-nationalists-describe-republican-2491918&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+In+Name+Only" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-NatReviewCorner-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-NatReviewCorner_25-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFNordlinger2017" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jay_Nordlinger" title="Jay Nordlinger">Nordlinger, Jay</a> (19 February 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-conservative-question-c-pac-and-milo-yiannopoulos/">"What Is a Conservative?"</a>. <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review">National Review</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 February</span> 2020</span>. <q>The idea is, white conservative men enjoy seeing their wives have sexual relations with dark-skinned men, for the purpose of making the country at large darker.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=National+Review&rft.atitle=What+Is+a+Conservative%3F&rft.date=2017-02-19&rft.aulast=Nordlinger&rft.aufirst=Jay&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalreview.com%2Fcorner%2Fwhat-conservative-question-c-pac-and-milo-yiannopoulos%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+In+Name+Only" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Guardian-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Guardian_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r999302996"/><cite id="CITEREFYuhas2015" class="citation news cs1">Yuhas, Alan (August 13, 2015). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/13/cuckservative-republicans-conservatives-jeb-bush">"<span class="cs1-kern-left">'</span>Cuckservative': the internet's latest Republican insult hits where it hurts"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2016-05-03</span></span>. <q>The insult's most general gist is conservatives accused of bowing to one non-conservative idea or another, <i>eg</i> immigration reform, should feel humiliated, their ideology adulterated.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=%27Cuckservative%27%3A+the+internet%27s+latest+Republican+insult+hits+where+it+hurts&rft.date=2015-08-13&rft.aulast=Yuhas&rft.aufirst=Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fus-news%2F2015%2Faug%2F13%2Fcuckservative-republicans-conservatives-jeb-bush&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARepublican+In+Name+Only" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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