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CONSERVASCHISM (N.) kun-‘sur-va-‘skiz-um  Dramatic divide among American conservatives, emerging in the wake of the 2008 Obama election and the 2010 mid-term elections, in which “Tea Party Republicans” with far-right views (pro-gun, pro-death penalty, anti-entitlement, anti-tax, anti-gay, anti-Choice)—gained political influence, reducing the polling power of moderate Republicans. Usage: Because of the conservaschism, the moderate Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had to court extremist “anti-big-government” Tea Party voters by pretending to oppose health care reforms that resembled those he himself instituted as Massachusetts governor. —§An egret’s plume to Christine Bell for the word.

CONSERVASCHISM (N.) kun-‘sur-va-‘skiz-um  Dramatic divide among American conservatives, emerging in the wake of the 2008 Obama election and the 2010 mid-term elections, in which “Tea Party Republicans” with far-right views (pro-gun, pro-death penalty, anti-entitlement, anti-tax, anti-gay, anti-Choice)—gained political influence, reducing the polling power of moderate Republicans. Usage: Because of the conservaschism, the moderate Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had to court extremist “anti-big-government” Tea Party voters by pretending to oppose health care reforms that resembled those he himself instituted as Massachusetts governor.

—§An egret’s plume to Christine Bell for the word.

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