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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. Text © Liesl Schillinger 9/26/2011 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 9/26/2011

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.

Text © Liesl Schillinger 9/26/2011 Image ©Elizabeth Zechel, 9/26/2011

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