What The Cuck?
I have noted with puzzlement that an insult derived from “cuckold” is in frequent use among the slangier elements of the American political right. “Cuckservative” — sometimes shortened to just “cuck” — is applied to people on the right who are seen as insufficiently conservative. No, it doesn’t make a lot of sense, and it’s not an area of our modern world upon which I waste many brain cycles. But I have wondered at the usage.
So, too, has Paltego, only he spent some time thinking about it:
The key element of cuckolding is surely the ‘cheating’ aspect and the feelings that provokes. By definition it needs at least three people, with one of them getting off on being spurned and denied. Maybe the cuckold gets off on the woman’s pleasure, or masochistically on the humiliation and rejection, but either way it’s a secret source of enjoyment. Do how does this dynamic map to the insult? If Donald Trump is the bull and Jeb Bush the cuck, who or what is the woman? How is the cheating happening? And is Jeb supposed to be getting a thrill out of it? It doesn’t really make much sense to me.
An article in Esquire suggests a simpler explanation: cuckolds are by definition weak, therefore weak conservatives must perforce be cucks. This view totally ignores the psychodynamics of cuckoldry-as-a-fetish that Paltego is trying to engage, but perhaps that’s no surprise.
And that’s quite enough time spent on that.
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I think there’s a racial element too, which conservatives can’t help but think about all the time. The majority of cuck porn is usually a black man taking a white woman while her helpless husband looks on. (Gee, who could that black man be, I wonder???)
The Esquire article advanced the racial theory too. They grounded it, as you do, in an argument from cuckoldry porn, and I’m simply not familiar enough with that genre to judge.
You’re not being literal enough about it. It has nothing to do with a cuckold fetish, nor race. The analogy is not to fetishists, but to the traditional definition, a man who’s wife is fucking someone besides him.
The alt right’s basic claim is that the system is rigged to move to the left by various means. Cuckservatives are people who are nominally right wing but buy into the fiction that the system is fair (that their wife isn’t cheating) and who never actually enact conservative policies (get to fuck her).
I’m not endorsing any of these views, just laying out the reasoning.
There’s a long history of personifying nations as women. In this case, the wife is America.
The idea is that a politician who lets dark-skinned immigrants enter his country is like a husband who lets dark-skinned immigrants enter his wife. Or, more generally, that America is getting fucked by jews, bankers, and liberals, while the cuckservatives stand by doing nothing to stop it.
I understand it rather simply: A cuck is someone who enjoys watching their country get fucked.
I think that it is an evolution of the MRA scene online that is obsessed with alphas and betas and people dominating one another and using women as social currency among other things. The cuck may have a woman, but since someone else is fucking her, it doesn’t count. In fact it might be a net negative in terms of pecking order because he is metaphorically getting fucked by both her and her lover.