OBE

(US politics, historical) Initialism of Office of Business Economics, now BEA.


DOS

Department of State
w:United States Department of State

(US politics) Initialism of Department of State.


purple

en-adj

purple (comparative purpler or more purple, superlative purplest or most purple)

purpler (comparative)
more purple (comparative)
purplest (superlative)
most purple (superlative)

nonpurple

antonym(s) of “having purple as its colour”

From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.

der

purple state

purple city

In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.

2010, Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada, University of Nevada Press, →ISBN, page 162:

As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two.

2011 May 7, Margalit Fox, “Lanny Friedlander, Founder of Reason Magazine, Dies at 63”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.

2023 May 4, Frank Bruni, “Republicans Are Running Wild in My State”, in The New York Times:

(US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.


teddy bear

From Morris Michtom, the owner of a candy store in Brooklyn N.Y., who made the first “Teddy Bear” in the year 1902 in honor of then American President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt when he had heard that he had refused to shoot a bear cub on one of his hunting trips.

1988, Michael Weikath, "Rise and Fall", Helloween, Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II.
The king of Los Angeles / Bought himself a teddy bear / And the queen became shameless / She did it with a chair

The origin of Paddington (the bear, not the station) dates to 1956 when author Michael Bond (1926-2017) spotted a lonesome teddy bear on the shelf of a store near the station. It was Christmas Eve, so he bought the solitary bear for his wife.

2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74:

I'd like to mt you if you're a bearded ‘Teddy Bear,’ husky build, under 34 & share a career orientation.

1980 August 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:

...the sexy "teddy bear" frontman of the '80s rap group Heavy D and the Boyz.

1999, “Big Men are Sexy Too - Apr 1999”, in Ebony, volume 54, number 6, page 73:

This is not to say that women don't admire the Brad Pitts and George Clooneys of the world, but they're just as likely to be attracted to a big, teddy bear kind of man as the guy gracing the cover of GQ.

2008, Jean A. Campbell, Taking Sexy Back: The Cure for the Sexual Blahs, page 124:

Some insisted that, because men have generally hairier bodies than women, a super-hairy chest is super-male and therefore very appealing. They added that it not only looks sexy but also feels sexy, like a teddy bear.

2009, Desmond Morris, The Naked Man: A Study of the Male Body, page 161:

“So I'm sort of a big teddy bear, am I?” “A sexy teddy bear.” he kissed her neck.

2010, Abigail Reynolds, Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane..., page 276:

A lovable, endearing, large, strong, hairy, or sweet man, particularly one who is gentle in spite of a burly or gruff appearance.


blue

en-adj

blue (comparative bluer or more blue, superlative bluest or most blue)

bluer (comparative)
more blue (comparative)
bluest (superlative)
most blue (superlative)

conservative

antonym(s) of “pertaining to the US Democratic Party”

red

antonym(s) of “dominated by higher-frequency electromagnetic radiation”

antiblue

antonym(s) of “having blue as its colour charge”

Tok Pisin: blu

→ Fiji Hindi: bulu

→ Shona: bhuluu

→ Somali: buluug

→ Swahili: bluu, buluu

→ Tooro: bururu

From Middle English blewe, from Anglo-Norman blew (“blue”), from Middle French bleu, from Old French blöe, bleve, blef (“blue”), from Frankish *blāu (“blue”) (perhaps through a Late Latin blāvus, blāvius (“blue”) attested from Isidore of Seville), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlēw- (“yellow, blond, grey”). Cognate with dialectal English blow (“blue”), Scots blue, blew (“blue”), North Frisian bla, blö (“blue”), Saterland Frisian blau (“blue”), Dutch blauw (“blue”), German blau (“blue”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish blå (“blue”), Icelandic blár (“blue”), Latin flāvus (“yellow”), Middle Irish blá (“yellow”). Doublet of blow.
Possibly related also to English blee (“colour”), from Old English blēo (“colour”); but direct derivatives of Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (“blue, dark blue”) in Old English include: Old English blāw and blēo (“blue”), Old English blǣwen (“bluish, light-blue”), blǣhǣwen (“blue-coloured, bluish, violet or purple colour”, literally “blue-hued”). There seems to be a parallel connection in Germanic between words for blue and colour, dually exemplified by Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“colour, blee”) and *blāu (“blue”); and Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“colour, hue”) and *hēwijaz (“blue, purple”).
The sense "obscene, pornographic" is apparently from the colour; various theories exist as to how it arose, including that it is from the colour of the envelopes used to contain missives of the censors and managers to vaudevillian performers on objectionable material from their acts that needed to be excised.

belau

blue-coloured — see also dark blue, light blue

I live in a blue constituency.  Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.

(politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by a political party represented by the colour blue.

(US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.


red

en-adj

red (comparative redder or more red, superlative reddest or most red)

redder (comparative)
more red (comparative)
reddest (superlative)
most red (superlative)

nonred

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour”

antired

antonym(s) of “having red as its colour charge”

From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).

a red state

a red Congress

(politics, often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.


liberal

The adjective is from Old French liberal, from Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”); it is attested since the 14th century. The noun is first attested in the 1800s.

vasemmistolainen

someone left-wing — see also progressive, left-winger

And I love Puerto Ricans and Negros
As long as they don't move next door.
So love me, love me, love me, I'm a liberal.

1966, Phil Ochs (lyrics and music), “Love Me, I'm a Liberal”:

(US politics) Someone with progressive or left-wing views; one with a left-wing ideology.


liberal

es-adj

liberal m or f (masculine and feminine plural liberales)

From Latin līberālis (“befitting a freeman”), from līber (“free”).


liberal

es-noun

liberal m or f by sense (plural liberales)


filibuster

→ Chinese: 費力把事拖／费力把事拖 (fèilìbǎshìtuō)

→ Dutch: filibuster

→ Indonesian: filibuster

Borrowed from Spanish filibustero (“pirate”), from French flibustier, ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (“agent”). The alteration in the first syllable in French is due to the word's being somewhat conflated with vlieboot (“light, flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or three masts”) when it was borrowed into French or another language from Dutch. The word is cognate and analogous to English freebooter.

Claude Rains
James Stewart
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
United States Senate

No longer do filibustering Senators take the floor and speak until they are physically unable to filibuster any longer. Now, a filibuster typically begins when a Senator or group of Senators signals their intent to filibuster – which can be done by a private conversation with the majority leader or by quietly placing a bill or nomination on hold. Given the modern Senate's scarce floor time, this threat is usually enough to table the disputed issue until the dissenting Senators cave or until there are definitely enough votes to invoke cloture.

2010 April 22, Mimi Murray Digby Marziani, Diana Lee, “Statement for the Record, Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY”, in Examining the Filibuster: Hearings before the Committee on Rules and Administration, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, Second Session, April 22, 2010, May 19, 2010, June 23, 2010, July 28, 2010, and September 22 and 29, 2010 (S. Hrg. 111-706), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 112:

Then, last month, before the survey was finished and for reasons still unclear, the Democrats abruptly tried to attach a repeal of the law to the defence appropriations bill, a stratagem the Republicans defeated in a filibuster.

2010 October 14, “An own goal on gay rights”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 2016-04-23:

(US politics) A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.

filibusterisme

long speech given in order to delay proceedings or the making of a decision

(US politics) A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction; a filibusterer.

filibuster

member of a legislative body causing such obstruction

obstruáló (optionally with a noun like ember/személy/képviselő etc.)


filibuster

Borrowed from English filibuster, from Spanish filibustero, from French flibustier, from Dutch vrijbuiter.

(US politics) a filibuster, a tactic to delay Congressional procedures


川

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

/ʈ͡ʂʰu̯än⁵⁵/

Pictogram (象形) – compare 水 (OC *qʰʷljilʔ), 川, and 𡿧.
The Middle and Old Chinese reconstruction of this word is phonologically problematic (STEDT):
* Karlgren (1957) notes that the Middle Chinese form is irregular based on evidence from Shijing rimes.
* Based on velar contacts in the same phonetic series, e.g. 巛, 甽 and 訓, Baxter (1992) and Schuessler (2007) reconstruct the word with a velar initial (Handel, 1998; Sagart, 1999), which undergoes irregular palatalization in the development to Middle Chinese (Baxter, 1992).
* Based on other characters in the same phonetic series, e.g. 順 and 馴, Sagart (1999), and later, Baxter and Sagart (2014), reconstructs 川 with a lateral initial and suggests that only a *t- prefix would account for the Middle Chinese initial /t͡ɕʰ/.
Schuessler (2007) relates this word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river; valley”), whence 江 (OC *kroːŋ, “river”), 谷 (OC *kloːɡ, “valley”), Tibetan ཀླུང (klung, “river”), Burmese ချောင်း (hkyaung:, “stream”). STEDT notes that this does not account for the *-n coda.
STEDT instead compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-t(w)əj-n ~ m-ti-s (“water; fluid; liquid; river; soak; spit”), whence 涕 (OC *tʰiːlʔ, “tears”), Proto-Kuki-Chin *tuj (“water; fluid; liquid”), Chepang तीः (“water; rain; river”); this depends on a reconstruction with a dental initial and requires positing an *‑n suffix not present in Tibeto-Burman languages.

cog

挺川

川粉

(Internet slang, Taiwanese Mandarin) Short for 川普 (Chuānpǔ, “Donald Trump”).


ADA

Americans for Democratic Action
w:Americans for Democratic Action

(US politics) Initialism of Americans for Democratic Action.

Americans with Disabilities Act
w:Americans with Disabilities Act

(US politics) Initialism of Americans with Disabilities Act.


veep

From a colloquial or humorous pronunciation of the abbreviation VP.

She’s running for veep.

So the veep becomes the peep [president] and picks a new veep who must be confirmed by a majority vote of both houses of Congress.

2020 October 12, CGP Grey, 1:01 from the start, in Being President: Most Deadly Job in America, archived from the original on 2024-07-26:

(US politics, informal) The Vice President of the United States; the office of Vice President of the United States, especially during an election cycle where several are in the running for the nomination.


czar

See tsar. The spelling czar, the older spelling in English, comes from Sigismund von Herberstein's Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii ("Notes on Muscovite Affairs") of 1549. The alternative tsar began to replace it in the 19th century.

drug czar

cyberczar

The federal mental health czar is calling for more money to expand services to help people suffering amid the social isolation imposed by the coronavirus pandemic […]

2020 May 8, Jayne O'Donnell, “'Deaths of despair': Coronavirus pandemic could push suicide, drug deaths as high as 150k, study says”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2020-05-09:

(informal, US politics, Philippine politics) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.


astroturfing

From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and Astroturf."

(originally US politics, now social media, marketing) The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.

Tarnung einer Kampagne als Volksbewegung


So, given the ever growing list of J6ers that are real estate agents...has anyone looked into whether they attended whatever grift it was that 45 had going about training folks to be real estate agents?
(Tonight's random thought)

2022 September 5, Chirparrooo, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-06:

(US politics, slang) Donald Trump, as the forty-fifth president of the United States.


pork

en-noun

pork (countable and uncountable, plural porks)

→ Japanese: ポーク (pōku)

From Middle English pork, porc, via Anglo-Norman, from Old French porc (“swine, hog, pig; pork”), from Latin porcus (“domestic hog, pig”).
Cognate with Old English fearh (“piglet”). Doublet of farrow. Compare also other West Germanic words for pigs: Ferkel, Ferke, and varken.
Used in English since the 14th century, and as a term of abuse since the 17th century.
US politics sense is related to pork barrel.
The verb is from the black American form of poke.

der

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.


Dubya

Representing a southern United States pronunciation of W, the middle initial of George W. Bush.

(often derogatory) A nickname for and abbreviation of George W. Bush.


tracker

追踪器

computer program that monitors something

While she and Mr. Fetterman were often in different places, she would turn up at events early so she could shoot and post photos of the crowds, the lines, the people. At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.

2022 December 17, Judith Newman, “John Fetterman’s TikTok Whisperer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

agent noun of track; one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.

(US politics) A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.


GOP

Initialism of Grand Old Party, a nickname for the Republican Party.

On their behalf, Reagan insisted (over the objections of the Ford forces) that the GOP platform declare that henceforth “the goal of Republican foreign policy is the achievement of liberty under law and a just and lasting peace in the world.”

2005, Jesse Helms, “Ronald Reagan, 1976”, in Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 103:

(US politics) The Republican Party, one of the two major political parties in the United States.


TDS

Trump derangement syndrome
Trump derangement syndrome#English

(US politics, uncountable) Initialism of Trump derangement syndrome.


Star Wars

[ˈstɑɹ ˈwɔɹz]

[ˈstɑ˞ ˈwɔɹz]

From the original name of the science fantasy motion picture Star Wars (1977).

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative

(informal, military) The United States Strategic Defense Initiative.


purple state

Compound of purple + state, modeled on blue state and red state. From purple being a blend of blue and red colors, where the color representing the Democratic Party of the United States is blue and that representing the Republican Party of the United States is red.

“I have loved this purple state that I’ve grown up in,” said Mallerie Stromswold, a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.

2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, quoting Mallerie Stromswold, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


red state

From the color red representing the Republican Party of the United States, and being a state (“subnational division, province”) that votes Republican.

(US politics) A state of the United States voting Republican in a given election, tending to vote Republican in general, or having a typically conservative mindset.


blue state

Compound of blue + state. From the color blue representing the Democratic Party of the United States, and being a state (“subnational division, province”) that votes Democratic.

(idiomatic, US politics) A state of the United States voting Democratic in a given election, or tending to vote Democratic in general.


swing state

(US politics) A state which may vote Democratic or Republican, in a given election or generally.

وِلَايَة مُتَأَرْجِحَة

a state which may vote Democratic or Republican


IRA

In the September follow-up, those significant gains looked much more contingent. More than 80 percent of the potential emissions reductions from the I.R.A. would be lost, the report concluded, if the country continued to expand the electricity grid at only its recent pace of about 1 percent per year.

2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times:

Inflation Reduction Act
w:Inflation Reduction Act

(US politics) Initialism of Inflation Reduction Act.


Casey

en-proper noun

Casey (countable and uncountable, plural Caseys)

Anglicisation of an Irish surname Ó Cathasaigh (“descendant of (a person named) Watchful”).

Planned Parenthood v. Casey
w:en:Planned Parenthood v. Casey

(US, law, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Planned Parenthood v. Casey. A 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that reaffirmed the right to having an abortion; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


deplorable

/dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/

PIE word
 *de
The adjective is borrowed from French déplorable (“lamentable, regrettable”), or from its etymon Late Latin dēplōrābilis + English -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’). Dēplōrābilis is derived from Latin dēplōrō (“to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”) + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while dēplōrō is from dē- (intensifying prefix) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). By surface analysis, deplore + -able.
The noun is derived from the adjective. Sense 2 refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (born 1947) during the 2016 United States presidential election calling half of the supporters of her Republican opponent Donald Trump (born 1946) a “basket of deplorables”.

der

He [Donald Trump] did not say who “the guys” were—but [John Maguire] Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.

2018, Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 355:

Trump's fate, [Steve] Bannon declared, rested with the deplorables, who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.

2019 June 4, Michael Wolff, “McCain, Woodward, Anonymous”, in Siege: Trump Under Fire, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

The self-image of the deplorables is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.

2020, Rick Wilson, Running against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—And Democrats from Themselves, New York, N.Y.: Crown Forum, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 265:

(specifically, US politics, derogatory, neologism) A supporter of Donald Trump.


KKK

(US politics) Initialism of Ku Klux Klan.


axis of evil

2002 State of the Union Address
George W. Bush
axis of evil

Coined by American political commentator David Frum in 2002 and first used publicly by President George W. Bush in the 2002 State of the Union Address. Possibly from a historical analogy to the German-Italian-Japanese axis. Extended to astrophysics by Portuguese scientist João Magueijo in 2005.

coin

I discussed Iraq with Gerhard during his visit to the White House on January 31, 2002. In my State of the Union address two days earlier, I had outlined the threats posed by Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. “States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world,” I said. The media seized on the phrase “axis of evil.” They took the line to mean that the three countries had formed an alliance. That missed the point. The axis I referred to was the link between the governments that pursued WMD and the terrorists who could use those weapons. There was a larger point in the speech that no one could miss: I was serious about dealing with Iraq.

2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 233:

Communist China is on a mission for dominance. At the helm of the New Axis of Evil, China has indicated they will invade independent countries and destroy democratic leadership to achieve that end. My recent visit to Taiwan made it abundantly clear that the leaders in Taiwan want the United States and our allies to stand with them as they fight to keep their independence.

2022 September 9, Marsha Blackburn, “We must stand with Taiwan”, in Tullahoma News, Tullahoma, Tennessee, archived from the original on 2022-09-11:

weapons of mass destruction
weapon of mass destruction

A group of states accused by George W. Bush of sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction, originally defined as Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

مِحْوَر اَلشَّرّ

states supposedly sponsoring terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction


POTUS

Phillips Code abbreviation, 1895. In more common usage since the 1990s.

It makes sense that ex-POTUSes don't tend to make it onto juries.

2017 October 28, Gabrielle Bruney, “Some Lucky Accused Criminal Could Have Obama on Their Jury”, in Esquire, Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., retrieved 2020-02-23:

(US politics) Acronym of President of the United States.


watcher

From Middle English wacchere, wachere, wacher, equivalent to watch + -er.

(US politics) A political representative aligned with a candidate sent to observe elections to report on irregularities. A scrutineer.


flip

en-verb

flip (third-person singular simple present flips, present participle flipping, simple past and past participle flipped)

flips (present singular third-person)
flipping (participle present)
flipped (participle past)
flipped (past)

Alteration of earlier fillip, from Middle English filippen (“to make a signal or sound with thumb and right forefinger, snap the fingers”), an attenuated variation of flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”). Cognate with Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”).

inh

Wisconsin had been Democratic for decades, but the Republicans flipped it in 2016.

(transitive, US politics) To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections.


Lawrence

en-proper noun

Lawrence (countable and uncountable, plural Lawrences)

(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Lawrence v. Texas. A 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex sexual relations; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


recall

en-verb

recall (third-person singular simple present recalls, present participle recalling, simple past and past participle recalled)

recalls (present singular third-person)
recalling (participle present)
recalled (participle past)
recalled (past)

From re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, French rappeler, English withcall.

That stop-start-stop has created a groundswell of anger toward Mr. Newsom, a Democrat in the third year of his first term, that is increasingly fueling a movement to recall him from office in one of the bluest of blue states.

2021 February 19, Nellie Bowles, “Hurt by Lockdowns, California’s Small Businesses Push to Recall Governor”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, US politics) To remove an elected official through a petition and direct vote.


recall

en-noun

recall (countable and uncountable, plural recalls)

recall petition

representative recall

The action or fact of calling someone or something back.

(chiefly US politics) The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.

(US politics) The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.


bork

en-verb

bork (third-person singular simple present borks, present participle borking, simple past and past participle borked)

borks (present singular third-person)
borking (participle present)
borked (participle past)
borked (past)

A reference to the unsuccessful 1987 United States Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork (1927–2012); first appeared in print that same year.

In light of the current furor over trying to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, I would like to submit a new verb in the English language. Three forms would be "to bork," "borking," and "borked." This would describe the act of partisan political character assassination.

[1987 December 10, Kenneth H. Taylor, “[Voice of the People:] New verb”, in The San Bernardino County Sun, page 11, columns 3–4:

George [H. W.] Bush will almost certainly have an opportunity to nominate one or more justices. It would be a pity for all of us if they are subjected to the treatment accorded Robert Bork. Honest disagreement is one thing; "borking" is something else.

1988 November 30, William McCarthy, “Democrats ‘borked’”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 2017-10-19, page 20:

I feel strongly that he [Senator John Tower] is being borked. … The charges that have been leveled at him have all proved groundless, baseless.

1989 February 9, CBS This Morning, spoken by Malcolm Wallop:

In other words, I am intentionally borking the headline writer, for no other reason than to make my point with greater force.

1995, Lani Guinier, The Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, page xix:

After an eight-year hiatus, these groups are back on the scene, ready to implement an apparent vicious strategy of Borking any judicial nominee who happens to disagree with their view of how the world should be.

2002 February 7, Orrin G[rant] Hatch, “Statement of the Honorable Orrin Hatch, United States Senator, Utah [The Nomination of Charles W. Pickering to be United States Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Circuit]”, in United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, archived from the original on 2008-09-21:

[Stephen L.] Carter believes that liberals seem to think that only conservatives "bork" and likewise conservatives seem to believe that only liberals "bork," but the unhappy truth is that everybody "borks".

2004, Joseph Michael Green, “Media Activity”, in Your Past and the Press!: Controversial Presidential Appointments: A Study Focusing on the Impact of Interest Groups and Media Activity on the Appointment Process, Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 131:

Forcing their adversaries to bork nominees may, they may think, lead voters in the middle to think less well of liberals, enhancing the distaste for Washington politics that has helped conservatives gain political power.

2005, Mark [Victor] Tushnet, “A Supreme Court United?”, in A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 340:

Above all it discusses the best tactics to defeat a borking. Having been in the [Ronald] Reagan White House when Robert Bork was borked, I knew something about the subject, which was a huge help when the same borking guns were turned on my friend Judge [D. Brooks] Smith years later.

2006 October 30, Jeffrey Lord, “Borking Rush”, in American Spectator, archived from the original on 2017-10-17:

(transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.


JFK

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
w:John F. Kennedy

(US politics) Initialism of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th US president.


Bushism

From Bush + -ism, named after American presidents George W. Bush (1946–) and George H. W. Bush (1924–2018).

named-after

A turn of phrase employed by President George W. Bush that is unintentionally comical due to grammatical errors, malapropisms, etc.


Bushian

en-adj

Bushian (comparative more Bushian, superlative most Bushian)

more Bushian (comparative)
most Bushian (superlative)

2004 October 23, Geoffrey K. Pullum, “Bushian tautologies? I don't think so”, in Language Log:

Of or pertaining to a person named Bush, in particular and usually President of the United States, George W. Bush:


bully pulpit

From bully (“(US, slang) very good”) + pulpit (“raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker”), said to have been coined by the United States President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) who used the term to refer to his office, by which he meant a terrific platform from which one can advocate an agenda: see the 1909 quotation.

compound

He [Theodore Roosevelt] was sitting at his desk reading to us his forthcoming Message. He had just finished a paragraph of a distinctly ethical character, when he suddenly stopped, swung round in his swivel chair, and said: "I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit!"

1909 February 27, Lyman Abbott, “A Review of President Roosevelt’s Administration: Its Influence on Patriotism and Public Service”, in Lyman Abbott, editor, The Outlook, volume XCI, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:

“The only option is to continue raising the issue, making it a political fight and using the bully pulpit to get more attention,” the [White House] source said.

2024, unnamed source, quoted in: James Oliphant, Joseph Ax, and Bad Brooks, Republicans scramble to contain backlash from IVF court ruling, Reuters, published in: The Christian Science Monitor, February 26 2024

At a leadership level, Ms. Hurst wishes that lawmakers would use their bully pulpit to convene constituents for more of the sorts of conversations that took place in Portugal.

2024 July 10, Stephen Humphries, Alfredo Sosa, “Stick, meet Carrot. How Portland police and activists teamed up to fight addiction.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

(US, chiefly politics) An advantageous position from which to express one's views, especially a political office.


Assembly

Nevada Assembly

New York State Assembly

(US politics) The lower legislative body of each of a number of states of the United States.


Democrat

At one point in the debate, the moderator asked a tough question that had the candidates stumped.
Moderator: "This question is for both of the candidates. Those ever-important independent voters who haven’t decided who to vote for would like to know what the real differences between you two are."
Gore: "I think the real difference between Governor Bush and I is that he is in fact a Republican, and I am currently a Democrat."
Moderator: "That doesn’t really answer the question, I am talking about issues."
Bush: "No, he is right. I am a Republican, and he is a Democrat."

2000 October 3, Tim Paluch, “Gore vs. Bush: That's Debatable”, in Iowa State Daily:

(US politics) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party in the United States.

民主黨人

supporter of the Democratic Party of the US


Roe

From a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.

Ultimately, Ms. Bottone said she just wanted to know whether she could keep driving in the H.O.V. lane for the remainder of her pregnancy, as she said she had in her previous pregnancies, long before the overturning of Roe.

2022 July 12, Luke Vander Ploeg, “Can You Drive Alone in the H.O.V. Lane if You’re Pregnant? A Post-Roe Quandary.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US, law, US politics, informal) Ellipsis of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 US Supreme Court case which legalized abortion and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.


Whig

From Whiggamore, possibly from Scots whiggamore (“horse driver”), from whig (“to drive”) + mare.

whig

a member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party

(US politics, historical) An advocate of war against, or independence from, Britain during the American Revolution.

(US politics, historical) A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.


Republican

en-adj

Republican (comparative more Republican, superlative most Republican)

more Republican (comparative)
most Republican (superlative)

There are Libertarian, Republican and Democratic nominees running for office right now.

(US politics) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States.


Republican

Famine, pestilence, war… War! I like it!
When did you become a Republican.

1998 November 27, Danita Jones, “Sabrina and the Beast”, in Sabrina the Teenage Witch, season 3, episode 1, spoken by Sabrina Spellman (Beth Broderick as Zelda Spellman and Melissa Joan Hart), Paramount Domestic Television, via ABC:

(US politics) A member or supporter of the Republican Party, the more right-wing of the two main political parties in the United States.

جُمْهُورِيّ

supporter of the Republican Party of the U.S.

Republicunt

Member or supporter of the US Republican Party


Wall

Wall (disambiguation)#Places
Wall (surname)

en-proper noun

Wall (countable and uncountable, plural Walls)

Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.

der

A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Allegheny County
Allegheny County#English

A borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

Pennington County
Pennington County#English

A town in Pennington County, South Dakota.

Tom Green County
Tom Green County#English

An unincorporated community in Tom Green County, Texas.


Reaganomics

Blend of Reagan + economics, equivalent to Reagan + -nomics.

Many opponents of Reaganomics, in fact, don't contend that the program can't work over the long run. But they argue that the program can not work the way the President promised and that the resulting social cost isn't worth it.

1982 January 3, Jonathan Fuerbringer, “Reaganomics: The Report Card for 1981, and the Prospects”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

However, until the wheels came off the wagon in 2008, no doubt existed as to the efficacy of Bush's Reaganomics redux in feathering the nests of his wealthy “base.”

supply-side economics
supply-side economics

trickle-down hypothesis
trickle-down hypothesis

The neoliberal, free market economic ideas and policies of the American president Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) and his two administrations (1981–1989), with a focus on reduced government spending, taxation, and regulations (supply-side economics) and granting potential benefits and encouragement to wealthy people and businesses in particular to drive the rest of the economy (trickle-down hypothesis).


D

en-noun

D (countable and uncountable, plural Ds)

D-New York

(US politics) Abbreviation of Democrat, especially preceding the constituent location.


R

R-Texas

(US politics) Abbreviation of Republican, especially preceding the constituent location.


W

Abbreviations of various words beginning with W.

(US politics, informal) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).


ER

(US politics) Initialism of Eleanor Roosevelt.


FLOTUS

First Lady of the United States
First Lady of the United States#English

(US politics) Acronym of First Lady of the United States.


Q

In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally paid for by Clinton and Obama; and that the Las Vegas massacre was most definitely an inside job connected to the Saudi-Clinton cabal.

2017 December 19, Paris Martineau, “The Storm Is the New Pizzagate — Only Worse”, in New York, archived from the original on 2018-12-26:

In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

At the end of her report, Coaston concluded, “Most people have never heard of QAnon, or Q — and that includes most of Donald Trump’s supporters.” That’s still the case, but the fact that this book is at the top of some of Amazon’s most prominent recommendation lists means that a far larger share of the population will — at a minimum — stumble across these ideas.

2019 March 6, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How a conspiracy theory about Democrats drinking children’s blood topped Amazon’s best-sellers list”, in Vox, archived from the original on 2019-03-07:

(US politics) Abbreviation of QAnon (“anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory”).


FOIA

First use appears c. 1968, in the publication Administrative Law Review.

FOIA is what enables regular people to pester powerful federal agencies into handing over information about what they’ve been up to. FOIA’s website calls it “the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.”

2017 July 23, Michelle Cottle, “The War on the Freedom of Information Act”, in The Atlantic:

w:Freedom of Information Act (United States)

(law, US politics) Acronym of Freedom of Information Act.


SDI

The new sales pitch for S.D.I. runs smack up against the recommendations of Mr. Reagan's own Commission on Strategic Forces, the panel that so effectively closed the window of vulnerability back in 1983.

1987 August 31, Howard Ris, “Don't Buy the S.D.I. Soap”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Strategic Defense Initiative
Strategic Defense Initiative#English

Initialism of Strategic Defense Initiative.


PAC

A PAC may contribute no more than $5,000 to a federal candidate in a general or primary election. PACs have grown to become the second-largest source of campaign funds, trailing only individuals (Herrnson 2004).

2006, Peter L. Francia, The Future of Organized Labor in American Politics, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 81:

The new group, called Save America, is a federal fund-raising vehicle known as a leadership PAC that has donation limits of $5,000 per donor per year. […] In that sense, his PAC could become a fan-subsidized machine to perpetuate his agenda and plot his next moves.

2020 November 10, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, Rachel Shorey, “Trump Starts PAC for Future Endeavors, Biden Will Speak on Obamacare Case”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

political action committee
w:political action committee

(US politics) Initialism of political action committee.


CR

CR (countable and uncountable, plural CRs)

Most continuing resolutions are temporary measures that expire on the date specified in the CR, or are superseded by enactment of the regular appropriations act.

2004, Allen Schick, The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process, →ISBN, page 228:

A few days later in a meeting with the president, Clinton asked Gingrich for a continuing resolution (CR) to continue funding the government until they could work out a compromise. “If I go back and try to get a longterm CR without a budget from you, the next time you'll be dealing with Speaker Armey," he said.

2008, Steven M. Gillon, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation, →ISBN:

CRs are a common occurrence because it is highly unusual for Congress and the president to pass all 13 appropriations bills by the start of the new fiscal year.

2014, Robert E. Dewhirst, John David Rausch, Encyclopedia of the United States Congress, →ISBN, page 149:

continuing resolution
continuing resolution#English

(US politics, law) Initialism of continuing resolution.


I

I (countable and uncountable, plural Is)

(US politics) Abbreviation of independent.


DNC

Democratic National Committee
w:Democratic National Committee

(US politics) Initialism of Democratic National Committee.


DNC

Coordinate term: RNC

Undoubtedly, there were some who thought that the party, once defined and consolidated, would appeal to “Reagan Democrats,” but there were also many who thought that the liberal groups dominating the party could easily splinter into diverse interest groups if not afforded the opportunity to come together as one. The 1984 DNC was going to be that opportunity.

2020, Theodore F. Sheckels, The Rhetoric of the American Political Party Conventions, 1948–2016, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 103:

Democratic National Convention
w:Democratic National Convention

(US politics) Initialism of Democratic National Convention.


October surprise

October surprise (plural October surprises)

(US politics) An occurrence that unexpectedly comes to public attention just prior to a November election, especially a presidential election, and that is likely to affect the outcome.


SCOTUS

Supreme Court of the United States
w:Supreme Court of the United States

(US politics) Acronym of Supreme Court of the United States.


TEA

(US politics) Initialism of taxed enough already.


bundler

She [Sandberg] was a reliable and prominent Democratic bundler.

2021 July 8, Sheera Frenkel, Cecilia Kang, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg’s Partnership Did Not Survive Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


Nader effect

Named after Ralph Nader, whose candidacy for President of the United States in the year 2000 was contended to have "spoiled" the election for Al Gore, by taking away enough votes from Gore in Florida and many other states to allow George W. Bush to win.

(US politics) The effect that a candidate for the corresponding political office (especially the office of President of the United States) can have on a close political election, when their candidacy results in the election being won by a candidate dissimilar to them, rather than a candidate similar to them.


trifecta

In fact, there are about a dozen states, including California, Massachusetts, Washington, and Illinois, where Democrats have won the trifecta—they control the governor's seat as well as both houses of the state legislature.

2013 June 26, Steven Hill, “So the Voting Rights Act Is Gutted—What Can Protect Minority Voters Now?”, in The Atlantic:

It’s not just Florida, of course. Republican trifectas in states across the country have introduced and passed dozens of bills aimed at the public existence of trans and other gender-nonconforming people.

2023 December 12, Jamelle Bouie, “Red States and Blue States Are Becoming Different Countries”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(US politics) The complete legislative and executive control of state or federal government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state or federal legislatures.

trifekta

control by one party of the federal or state government


IDS

Initialism of Initiative de défense stratégique (“Strategic Defense Initiative”): SDI


First Amendment

The claimant believed his First Amendment rights had been violated, but the judge was unsure of whether it was a First Amendment issue.

Our First Amendment class discussed the McCain-Feingold Act today, and I'm convinced people who claim money should be granted First Amendment protection are just defending the corrupt status quo of decades past.

What are the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States here referred to [in the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]? […] Among these we are safe in including those which in the Constitution are expressly secured to the people, either as against the action of the Federal or State governments. Included in these are the rights of freedom of speech, and the right peaceably to assemble. […] We find that Congress is forbidden to impair them by the first amendment, and the States are forbidden to impair them by the fourteenth amendment.

1871 May, Circuit Judge William Burnham Woods, “The Power of Congress to Pass the Enforcement Act—The Fourteenth Amendment Construed—The Rights of Citizens of the States and United States Considered.—The United States v. John Hall, Jr., and William Pettigrew. Heard before Woods, Circuit, and Busteed, District JJ., on demurrer to the indictment. [U.S. Circuit Court, 8. D. of Alabama.]”, in The Internal Revenue Record and Customs Journal: A Weekly Register of Official Information on Internal Revenue and Customs, volume XIII, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] C[onant] & F[rancis] P[harcellus] Church, publishers, office, no. 39 Park Row, →OCLC, page 182, column 3:

One scholar has noted that the [Warren Earl] Burger Court has invalidated more statutes on First Amendment grounds than any previous "court" […]

1981, Thomas A. Schwartz, A Reconceptualization of the First Amendment: The Burger Court and Freedom of the Press, 1969–1980 (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, →OCLC, page 224:

We have enshrined some of the most cherished rights of Americans in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, including freedom of religion, speech, press, the right to assemble, and petition the government for a redress of grievances.

2002, Clyde E. Willis, “Preface”, in Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on the First Amendment (Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws), Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, →ISBN:

By considering public opinion data on free press rights against the backdrop of modern First Amendment jurisprudence, we seek to offer new and original insights into the nature of popular support for these rights – and, in the process, we hope to provide a more sophisticated understanding of how the U.S. democratic system actually works

2002, David A[listair] Yalof, Kenneth Dautrich, “Preface and Acknowledgements”, in The First Amendment and the Media in the Court of Public Opinion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page viii:

The United States has generally not been successful in terms of exporting the First Amendment in the formal or legal sense, even to western democracies with which it shares much in common. Although they have rejected many of the First Amendment’s doctrines and standards, many nations have embraced its general norms, principles, and ideals. Indeed, the American First Amendment has had a profound and lasting effect on expressive and religious liberties throughout the world.

2014, Timothy Zick, “Exporting the First Amendment”, in The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 346:

2019 July 29, Elizabeth Nolan Brown on Reasonhttps://reason.com/2019/07/29/section-230-is-the-internets-first-amendment-now-both-republicans-and-democrats-want-to-take-it-away/
Section 230 Is the Internet's First Amendment.

freedom of the press
freedom of the press

The amendment to the constitution of the United States pertaining to freedom of speech, freedom of religion and freedom of the press.

First Amendment
Newseum
United States Constitution


minibus

minibus (plural minibuses or minibusses)

From mini- + bus. In the political sense, probably a back-formation from omnibus.

The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.

2020 July 25, Danielle Haynes, “House passes 4-bill spending package”, in UPI:

(US politics) A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.


FDR

Over the course of his [Eisenhower's] two terms in office, his administration's expenditures on public works actually exceeded those of FDR and Truman.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 1, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt
w:Franklin D. Roosevelt

(US politics) Initialism of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32ⁿᵈ US president.


Clintonism

Clintonism (countable and uncountable, plural Clintonisms)

(uncountable) The policies of U.S. president Bill Clinton.


third party

A seller may employ a third party to perform specific services to augment the value of a product, such as packing and distribution.

(business, commerce) Someone not directly involved in a transaction; an entity beyond the seller (first party) and customer (second party).

第三方

someone not directly involved in a transaction.

(law) Someone only incidentally or tangentially connected to an incident or dispute; someone other than the principals; a bystander or independent witness.

Those who belong to the Libertarian Party serve a much larger pro-liberty community and have the specific mission of electing libertarians to public office. They traditionally billed themselves as 'America's largest third party'.

2010, Duncan Watts, Dictionary of American Government and Politics, →ISBN, page 177:

(politics, chiefly US) A political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system.

kolmas puolue

a political party in opposition to the main parties in a two-party system


Watergate

/ˈwɑtəɹˌɡeɪt/

From the name of the Watergate Hotel; the complex itself was named after the "Water Gate" area where symphony orchestra concerts were staged on the Potomac River between 1935 and 1965.

An American political scandal (beginning with a burglary in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC, in 1972) that eventually led to the resignation of US President Richard Nixon.


freedom fries

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-freedom fries.wav

Originated at Cubbie's, a restaurant in Beaufort, North Carolina (owner Neal Rowland) in February 2003.
"It was never about politics," Rowland said of his initial decision to rename french fries "freedom fries." "It was about supporting our troops. Nothing has changed here. We still support our troops, and we still call them freedom fries."

[Q.]“Freedom fries” is a symbol of anti-French feeling. Does that sort of thing gall you?
[A.]Higonnet: […] Again, one has to distinguish between the public situation, in which a sense of hostility to things French is quite severe, and the private situation inside the university world where, when people talk about freedom fries, it's a big joke.

2003 March 22, Joseph Rosenbloom, quoting Patrice Higonnet, “Europeans in America: Freedom fries and raw nerves”, in International Herald Tribune:

Upset by the failure of the French government to support the war, however, the chairman of the House Administration Committee announced on March 11 that he had ordered “French toast” and “French fries” stricken from the menu of the House cafeteria. In their place would be “freedom toast” and “freedom fries.”

2006, Andrew Rudalevige, The New Imperial Presidency, page 3:

French Toast Egg Bagels Served as French Toast
Freedom Fries
Irish Nachos Freedom Fries, Bacon Bits, Chedder^([sic]) & Jack Cheese

2013 June 24, Dave Lieberman, quoting the menu of Bagel Me! restaurant, “Restaurant in Villa Park Still Sells “Freedom” Fries, But Doesn't Have a Problem with “French” Toast”, in OC Weekly:

Republican House members then ordered that “French fries” on the menus of all congressional restaurants be renamed “Freedom fries.” In response, a French Embassy spokesperson noted that fries had originated in Belgium.

2021 September 17, Karen DeYoung, “France recalls its ambassadors to the United States and Australia over submarine dispute”, in Washington Post:

(rare, US politics, sometimes humorous) French fries.


logrolling

logrolling (countable and uncountable, plural logrollings)

/ˈlɒɡˌɹəʊlɪŋ/

/ˈlɑɡˌɹoʊlɪŋ/

From log + rolling, the figurative senses from the practice of neighbors helping each other do heavy work such as rolling logs in connection with clearing land and building.

tukkien pyöritys

rolling of logs from one place to another

What, for instance, did the honorable member for North Melbourne (Mr. Curtain) care about the Horsham extension? Not twopence, unless it helped him to get the "outer circle" line. It was much the same with the honorable member for Crowlands (Mr. Woods), the honorable member for the Avoca (Mr. Grant), the honorable member for South Gippsland (Mr. Mason), and others. In fact it was felt during the whole of the discussion that there was an excellent chance for good wholesale log-rolling. He believed a more wholesale attempt at log-rolling never was made.

1873 October 22, “Railway Construction Bill”, in Victoria. Parliamentary Debates. Session 1873. Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly, volume XVII (Comprising the Period from August 27 to November 25), Melbourne: John Ferres, printer, →OCLC, pages 2004, column 2 – 2005, column 1:

Thus far, by a resort to the familiar method of "log-rolling," all attempts to put an end to the Northern and Southern divisions have failed, because of the union of the opposing interests with those that want large appropriations in different parts of the State; and it is quite probable that the same tactics will be successful in the future at all general sessions.

1896, “Discussion of the Address of Mr. Courtney”, in Proceedings of the Illinois State Bar Association at Its Nineteenth Annual Meeting Held in the City of Springfield, January 23 and 24, 1896 with the Constitution, Officers, Standing Committees and Roll of Members for the Year 1896, Springfield, Mass.: Illinois State Register Book Publishing House, →OCLC, part first, page 43:

By its nature logrolling pays off concentrated group interests and ignores diffuse interests, like taxpayers, who are hard to organize. Since interests in expansion and militarism are typically more concentrated than the interests opposed to them, logrolling is inherently more apt to produce overexpansion than underexpansion.

1991, Jack Snyder, “The Myth of Security through Expansion”, in Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs), Ithaca, N.Y., London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 18:

Incentives to engage in the exchange of votes in legislatures, or logrolling, have existed since the inception of legislatures. Most prominently, logrolling is alleged in the United States, where a plurality rule is employed to elect representatives from single-member districts.

1997, Thomas Stratmann, “Logrolling”, in Dennis C[ary] Mueller, editor, Perspectives on Public Choice: A Handbook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 322:

Logrolling is making mutually beneficial tradeoffs between the issues on the table. […] If a negotiator is positional or demanding, logrolling will be much more difficult. Logrolling is the art and science of being firm but flexible.

2014, Reed K. Holden, Leigh Thompson, “Truth 21. Logrolling (I Scratch Your Back, You Scratch Mine)”, in Learn Successful Sales and Negotiation Tips (Collection), Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press Delivers, →ISBN:

(uncountable, US politics, figuratively) A concerted effort to push forward mutually advantageous legislative agendas by combining two items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.

lehmänkauppa

politics: pushing one's agenda forward by combining two or more items


Strategic Defense Initiative

the Strategic Defense Initiative (canonical)

(historical) A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.


jump on the bandwagon

en-verb

jump on the bandwagon (third-person singular simple present jumps on the bandwagon, present participle jumping on the bandwagon, simple past and past participle jumped on the bandwagon)

jumps on the bandwagon (present singular third-person)
jumping on the bandwagon (participle present)
jumped on the bandwagon (participle past)
jumped on the bandwagon (past)

US 1899. A bandwagon carried the musicians at the head of a parade or at a political rally, beckoning others to follow. When used to refer to politics, jumping on the bandwagon suggests following the crowd for the excitement of the event rather than any firm conviction in its direction or truthfulness. The phrase is first attested in a letter by Theodore Roosevelt in 1899:
: When I once became sure of one majority they rumbled over each other to get aboard the band wagon.

After the incredible success of Wonka's latest low-fat chocolate bar, Fickelgruber has jumped on the bandwagon, and released a low-fat version.

(idiomatic) To profit from a craze; to join a trend.


Brandon

From Middle English Brandon, Brampdon, Bramdun, Bremedon, Bromdun, from Old English brōmdūn, from brōm (“broom shrub”) + dūn (“hill, dune”). Doublet of English Branton.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A number of places in the United States:

A census-designated place in Kiowa County, Colorado.

Hillsborough County
Hillsborough County#English

A census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida.

A charter township in Oakland County, Michigan.

A minor city and township in Douglas County, Minnesota.

A city, the county seat of Rankin County, Mississippi.

A census-designated place in Madison County, Montana.

An unincorporated community in Perkins County, Nebraska.

An unincorporated community in Ashe County, North Carolina.

An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio.

Minnehaha County
Minnehaha County#English

A city and township in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.

An unincorporated community in Hill County, Texas.

A town and census-designated place therein, in Rutland County, Vermont.

Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County#English

A village in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.


Brandon

From let's go, Brandon, ultimately from Brandon L. Brown. This was from a news reporter hiding NASCAR fans who were cursing at Joe Biden, resulting in its usage by critics of Joe Biden and Republicans.


State of the Union

(US politics) The State of the Union address, an annual event in which a president of the United States reports the status of the country, normally to a joint session of the United States Congress.

خُطْبَة حَالَةِ الاِتِّحَاد

annual address given by the US president

一般教書演説

いっぱんきょうしょえんぜつ


Campbell

* As a Scottish surname, from Scottish Gaelic Caimbeul, from cam (“crooked”) + beul (“mouth”). Compare Cameron, from Scottish Gaelic cam (“crooked”) + sròn (“nose”).
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Cathmhaoil (“son of Cathmhaol”), see Caulfield, Cowell.
* As an English surname, variant of Camel, probably influenced by the above.
* (duck breed): Developed by Adele Campbell.

(US, law, copyright law, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.. A 1994 U.S. Supreme Court case that held that commercial parodies can be subject to fair use.


AOC

But I’m fine with candidates like AOC (can we start abbreviating?) proposing the jobs guarantee, for a couple of reasons.

2018 July 5, Paul Krugman, “More on a Job Guarantee (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times:

“Time to walk the walk,” AOC, as the New York politician is known to supporters, wrote in a Tuesday night tweet.

2018 December 5, Chantal Da Silva, “‘Time to Walk the Walk’: Ocasio-Cortez Praised for 'Transparency' on Congressional Budget and Intern Pay”, in Newsweek:

As speaker, Pelosi will face challenges from the party's robust wing of liberal newcomers, including 29-year-old New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has risen to such prominence she is already known around the Capitol – and on her prolific social media accounts – by the nickname “AOC.”

2019 January 3, Lisa Mascaro, “Nancy Pelosi elected speaker of the House, sees ‘new dawn’ for 116th Congress”, in Chicago Tribune, Associated Press:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
w:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

(US politics) Initialism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.


Jefferson

en-proper noun

Jefferson (countable and uncountable, plural Jeffersons)

/ˈd͡ʒɛfɚsən/

From Jeffrey + -son. The placenames in the United States are named for Thomas Jefferson.

Ellis starts with Jefferson and race, writing that the Virginian, who began his career with a failed attempt to make emancipation easier, was “thoroughly embedded in the twin American dilemmas of slavery and racism […]”.

2019 November 28, John S. Gardner, “American Dialogue review: elegant history meets the Trump era”, in The Guardian:

Clearly quite a number of past chief executives would have been TV washouts. Jefferson, for example, is acknowledged to have been a terrible public speaker, Madison an unimpressive little man in voice and appearance.

2011 October 28, Alonzo L. Hamby, “Would Jefferson Make the Cut?”, in The New York Times:

(countable) An English surname originating as a patronymic; (US politics) used specifically of Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third president of the United States, principal author of the US Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential founders of the United States.


PPP

(US politics, employment, COVID-19) Initialism of paycheck protection program. A U.S. federal government business loan program to allow businesses to continue to pay fixed costs and employees, for those business adversely impacted by COVID-19.


radiclib

Shortening. The coinage is generally attributed to US vice president Spiro Agnew. It was used by the Nixon administration to attack the political opposition, implying that the liberals in the Senate were subversive. Several people on Nixon's Enemies List were identified as radiclibs.

1970. September 12, H. R. Haldeman, Haldeman's Diary,
Next, a front that sounds like SDS to support the Democratic candidates and praise their liberal records, etc, publicize their 'bad' quotes in guise of praise. Give the senators a 'radiclib' rating.


大統領

ㄉㄚˋ ㄊㄨㄥˇ ㄌㄧㄥˇ

/tä⁵¹ tʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ liŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/tä⁵¹ tʰʊŋ²¹⁴⁻³⁵ liŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 大統領.


originalist

In any event, this professorial detonation, especially coming as it does from hardline Federalist Society constitutional originalists, has set the cat among the Republican pigeons.

2023 September 2, Simon Schama, “The real Rino”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:

One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.

(US politics) Specifically, one who aims to discover how the writers of the Constitution of the United States intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way.


Camelot

en:Camelot (disambiguation)
en:Chrétien de Troyes
en:Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart

First attested in Old French as Camaalot in Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
* (US politics, Kennedy administration): From a reference to a contemporary musical of the same name

(US politics) The administration and surrounding mystique of President John F. Kennedy.


TR

Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt
w:en:Theodore Roosevelt

(US politics) Initialism of Theodore/Teddy Roosevelt, 26th US president.


markup

en-noun

markup (countable and uncountable, plural markups)

(US politics) The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.


Red Sea

From Middle English Red See, Reede See, Rede See, reade sea, from Old English Rēad Sǣ, a calque of Latin Mare Rubrum, itself a calque of Ancient Greek Ἐρυθρᾱ̀ θάλασσα (Eruthrā̀ thálassa); equivalent to red + sea.

der

Ἐρυθρᾱ̀ θάλασσα

(US politics) The states of the western and southern United States which consistently vote Republican in presidential elections.


Madison

en-proper noun

Madison (countable and uncountable, plural Madisons)

From Middle English Madde (“Maud”) + -son.

An English surname originating as a matronymic; (US politics) used specifically of James Madison (1751–1836), a Founding Father and fourth president of the United States.


assemblyman

A member of the lower house of certain US state legislatures.


snapper

(US politics, historical) A supporter of Senator Hill's premature scheduling of the Democratic National Committee convention of 1892.


whipsaw

en-verb

whipsaw (third-person singular simple present whipsaws, present participle whipsawing, simple past whipsawed, past participle whipsawn)

whipsaws (present singular third-person)
whipsawing (participle present)
whipsawed (past)
whipsawn (participle past)

(US politics) To accept bribes from multiple parties at once, with the intent of letting down one or more of them.


Beltway

Extended from beltway (“freeway encircling a city”); compare also highway.

But given that it takes 60 votes to beat a filibuster and 66 to override a veto, and given that the GOP has since added four hard-right senators to its total, it’s safe to say that nothing will be happening inside the Beltway anytime soon.

2005 May, Bill McKibben, “Climate of Denial”, in Mother Jones:

While not the entirety of the reason why the Beltway struggles to shed its imperial hubris and adapt to the new multipolar world, (much of that is simply complacency) understanding democratism’s hold over the governing elite is vital for explaining the unique hostility found in so much of foreign policy commentary towards a soberer and more realistic appraisal of the world.

2023 April 17, Christopher Mott, “The Democratist War on Diplomacy”, in The National Interest:

(US politics) The US federal government and policy and lobbying organizations, located in Washington, D.C..


AIPAC

(US politics) Acronym of American Israel Public Affairs Committee: a pro-Israel lobby in the United States.


Zippergate

From zipper + -gate, referring to the fastening on a man's trousers.

(chiefly US) The Monica Lewinsky scandal.


NPC

en-noun

NPC (countable and uncountable, plural NPCs)

Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.

[2018 October 16, Kevin Roose, “What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

While watching the VOD later, xQc insinuated that Fortnite pro Bucke was an "NPC" who was only there to defend Tate and not give Piker a fair shot – and what resulted afterward has caused quite a stir in its own right.

2022 July 22, Alec Mullins, “NRG Bucke kicks off after xQc calls him an “NPC” for siding with Andrew Tate”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2022-09-25:

non-player character
non-player character#English

(roleplaying games, video games) Initialism of non-player character.

(Internet slang, figuratively) A person with no ability to think for themselves; a sheeple (originally referring to opponents of former US President Donald Trump).


NPC

Nationalist People's Coalition
w:Nationalist People's Coalition

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Nationalist People's Coalition.

National People's Congress
w:National People's Congress

(China) Initialism of National People's Congress.

Northern People's Congress
w:Northern People's Congress

(Nigeria) Initialism of Northern People's Congress.


Demoncrat

American Blacks have made huge strides over the years, but the Demoncrats invent class warfare and inequality issues.

2003 May 26, mange [username], “Re: Abe Lincoln: The Republican Party”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):

The Demoncrats, truly the party of anti-Xtians and actually the embodiment of everything that is the traditional evil […]

2004 November 28, John S. Dyson, “Re: Zogby OHIO-FINAL: Bush up 48% to 44% (It's Over for Kerry)”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):

The fact is Demoncrats are more intolerant of those differing from them than are Republicans.

2006 October 3, alamonation1 [username], “Re: Did Democrats Page Mark Foley?”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet):

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party (with an implication that its members are demonic).


battleground

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-battleground.wav

Mr. Biden, the former vice president, is ahead of Mr. Trump in the Northern battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as in the Sun Belt states of Florida and Arizona, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by The New York Times and Siena College.

2020 November 1, “Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows”, in New York Times:

battleground state
battleground state#English

(US politics) Ellipsis of battleground state.


RINO

Irritated that Riordan’s key aides are Democrats, some Republican party activists sported RINO (Republican In Name Only) buttons at a Riordan speech (Los Angeles Times, 16 May 1994).

1994 September, Raphael J. Sonenshein, Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles, Princeton University Press, page 303:

And Bush is a RINO - Republican In Name Only. Even my dad, a lifelong Democrat, says that Bush (this one) is much more moderate […]

1998 October 28, Eric Chomko, “George W. Bush: Our Next President”, in alt.president.clinton (Usenet):

Among Republicans, there are the RINOs—Republican In Name Only. A RINO does not apply convictions based upon a biblical worldview to public policy.

2005 September, Brannon Howse, One Nation Under Man?: The Worldview War Between Christians and the Secular Left, Broadman & Holman Publishing Group, page 61:

Mr. Trump called Mr. Raffensperger a “RINO,” or Republican in Name Only, while continuing to make false claims about voting integrity in Georgia; along the way he tossed a few barbs at the state’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, Mr. Trump’s ally and sometime-scapegoat.

[2020 November 18, Richard Fausset, Jonathan Martin, “In Georgia, a Republican Feud With Trump at the Center”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Republican Party
w:Republican Party (United States)

(US politics, derogatory) Acronym of Republican in name only. Typically used by conservative members of the U.S. Republican Party to describe liberal Republicans or Republicans seen as liberals.


midterm election

midterm election (plural midterm elections or midterms)

midterm elections (plural)
midterms (plural)

Except in the rare case that a president leaves office early, the midterm election occurs roughly halfway through their term of office.

Most of the rational world . . . foresaw a smooth ride to victory for Democrats. They had, after all, the wind at their backs from the 2006 midterm elections.

2008 April 23, Amy Sullivan, “A Primary with No End”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-03:

(US politics) An election held every four years to elect members of Congress in years the president is not also elected.


Hoovercrat

(informal) An ally of President Herbert Hoover during his campaign and/or presidency.


Whigs

United States of America
United States of America

(US politics) A 19th-century political party in the United States of America.


voodoo economics

Coined by George H. W. Bush during the 1980 Republican primaries.

Riot shields, voodoo economics / It's just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F / I trust I can rely on your vote

1997, “Electioneering”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:

Supply-side economics
supply-side economics

(derogatory, slang) Supply-side economics, particularly in reference to policies based on the Laffer curve.


Christmas tree bill

Christmas tree bill (plural Christmas tree bills)

(idiomatic, US politics) A bill consisting of many riders that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments, which may provide special benefits to various groups or interests.


netroots

(politics, US politics) Grassroots political activism on the internet, especially on blogs.


demokraattinen

fi-adj

demokraattinen (comparative demokraattisempi, superlative demokraattisin)

demokraattisempi (comparative)
demokraattisin (superlative)
demokraattinen (nominative singular)
demokraattiset (nominative plural)
demokraattinen (accusative nominative singular)
demokraattiset (accusative nominative plural)
demokraattisen (accusative genitive singular)
demokraattiset (accusative genitive plural)
demokraattisen (genitive singular)
demokraattisten (genitive plural)
demokraattisien (genitive plural)
demokraattista (partitive singular)
demokraattisia (partitive plural)
demokraattisessa (inessive singular)
demokraattisissa (inessive plural)
demokraattisesta (elative singular)
demokraattisista (elative plural)
demokraattiseen (illative singular)
demokraattisiin (illative plural)
demokraattisella (adessive singular)
demokraattisilla (adessive plural)
demokraattiselta (ablative singular)
demokraattisilta (ablative plural)
demokraattiselle (allative singular)
demokraattisille (allative plural)
demokraattisena (essive singular)
demokraattisina (essive plural)
demokraattiseksi (singular translative)
demokraattisiksi (plural translative)
demokraattisetta (abessive singular)
demokraattisitta (abessive plural)
demokraattisin (instructive plural)
demokraattisine (comitative plural)
demokraattiseni (nominative singular)
demokraattiseni (nominative plural)
demokraattiseni (accusative nominative singular)
demokraattiseni (accusative nominative plural)
demokraattiseni (accusative genitive singular)
demokraattiseni (accusative genitive plural)
demokraattiseni (genitive singular)
demokraattisteni (genitive plural)
demokraattisieni (genitive plural)
demokraattistani (partitive singular)
demokraattisiani (partitive plural)
demokraattisessani (inessive singular)
demokraattisissani (inessive plural)
demokraattisestani (elative singular)
demokraattisistani (elative plural)
demokraattiseeni (illative singular)
demokraattisiini (illative plural)
demokraattisellani (adessive singular)
demokraattisillani (adessive plural)
demokraattiseltani (ablative singular)
demokraattisiltani (ablative plural)
demokraattiselleni (allative singular)
demokraattisilleni (allative plural)
demokraattisenani (essive singular)
demokraattisinani (essive plural)
demokraattisekseni (singular translative)
demokraattisikseni (plural translative)
demokraattisettani (abessive singular)
demokraattisittani (abessive plural)
demokraattisineni (comitative plural)
demokraattisesi (nominative singular)
demokraattisesi (nominative plural)
demokraattisesi (accusative nominative singular)
demokraattisesi (accusative nominative plural)
demokraattisesi (accusative genitive singular)
demokraattisesi (accusative genitive plural)
demokraattisesi (genitive singular)
demokraattistesi (genitive plural)
demokraattisiesi (genitive plural)
demokraattistasi (partitive singular)
demokraattisiasi (partitive plural)
demokraattisessasi (inessive singular)
demokraattisissasi (inessive plural)
demokraattisestasi (elative singular)
demokraattisistasi (elative plural)
demokraattiseesi (illative singular)
demokraattisiisi (illative plural)
demokraattisellasi (adessive singular)
demokraattisillasi (adessive plural)
demokraattiseltasi (ablative singular)
demokraattisiltasi (ablative plural)
demokraattisellesi (allative singular)
demokraattisillesi (allative plural)
demokraattisenasi (essive singular)
demokraattisinasi (essive plural)
demokraattiseksesi (singular translative)
demokraattisiksesi (plural translative)
demokraattisettasi (abessive singular)
demokraattisittasi (abessive plural)
demokraattisinesi (comitative plural)
demokraattisemme (nominative singular)
demokraattisemme (nominative plural)
demokraattisemme (accusative nominative singular)
demokraattisemme (accusative nominative plural)
demokraattisemme (accusative genitive singular)
demokraattisemme (accusative genitive plural)
demokraattisemme (genitive singular)
demokraattistemme (genitive plural)
demokraattisiemme (genitive plural)
demokraattistamme (partitive singular)
demokraattisiamme (partitive plural)
demokraattisessamme (inessive singular)
demokraattisissamme (inessive plural)
demokraattisestamme (elative singular)
demokraattisistamme (elative plural)
demokraattiseemme (illative singular)
demokraattisiimme (illative plural)
demokraattisellamme (adessive singular)
demokraattisillamme (adessive plural)
demokraattiseltamme (ablative singular)
demokraattisiltamme (ablative plural)
demokraattisellemme (allative singular)
demokraattisillemme (allative plural)
demokraattisenamme (essive singular)
demokraattisinamme (essive plural)
demokraattiseksemme (singular translative)
demokraattisiksemme (plural translative)
demokraattisettamme (abessive singular)
demokraattisittamme (abessive plural)
demokraattisinemme (comitative plural)
demokraattisenne (nominative singular)
demokraattisenne (nominative plural)
demokraattisenne (accusative nominative singular)
demokraattisenne (accusative nominative plural)
demokraattisenne (accusative genitive singular)
demokraattisenne (accusative genitive plural)
demokraattisenne (genitive singular)
demokraattistenne (genitive plural)
demokraattisienne (genitive plural)
demokraattistanne (partitive singular)
demokraattisianne (partitive plural)
demokraattisessanne (inessive singular)
demokraattisissanne (inessive plural)
demokraattisestanne (elative singular)
demokraattisistanne (elative plural)
demokraattiseenne (illative singular)
demokraattisiinne (illative plural)
demokraattisellanne (adessive singular)
demokraattisillanne (adessive plural)
demokraattiseltanne (ablative singular)
demokraattisiltanne (ablative plural)
demokraattisellenne (allative singular)
demokraattisillenne (allative plural)
demokraattisenanne (essive singular)
demokraattisinanne (essive plural)
demokraattiseksenne (singular translative)
demokraattisiksenne (plural translative)
demokraattisettanne (abessive singular)
demokraattisittanne (abessive plural)
demokraattisinenne (comitative plural)
demokraattisensa (nominative singular)
demokraattisensa (nominative plural)
demokraattisensa (accusative nominative singular)
demokraattisensa (accusative nominative plural)
demokraattisensa (accusative genitive singular)
demokraattisensa (accusative genitive plural)
demokraattisensa (genitive singular)
demokraattistensa (genitive plural)
demokraattisiensa (genitive plural)
demokraattistaan (partitive singular)
demokraattistansa (partitive singular)
demokraattisiaan (partitive plural)
demokraattisiansa (partitive plural)
demokraattisessaan (inessive singular)
demokraattisessansa (inessive singular)
demokraattisissaan (inessive plural)
demokraattisissansa (inessive plural)
demokraattisestaan (elative singular)
demokraattisestansa (elative singular)
demokraattisistaan (elative plural)
demokraattisistansa (elative plural)
demokraattiseensa (illative singular)
demokraattisiinsa (illative plural)
demokraattisellaan (adessive singular)
demokraattisellansa (adessive singular)
demokraattisillaan (adessive plural)
demokraattisillansa (adessive plural)
demokraattiseltaan (ablative singular)
demokraattiseltansa (ablative singular)
demokraattisiltaan (ablative plural)
demokraattisiltansa (ablative plural)
demokraattiselleen (allative singular)
demokraattisellensa (allative singular)
demokraattisilleen (allative plural)
demokraattisillensa (allative plural)
demokraattisenaan (essive singular)
demokraattisenansa (essive singular)
demokraattisinaan (essive plural)
demokraattisinansa (essive plural)
demokraattisekseen (singular translative)
demokraattiseksensa (singular translative)
demokraattisikseen (plural translative)
demokraattisiksensa (plural translative)
demokraattisettaan (abessive singular)
demokraattisettansa (abessive singular)
demokraattisittaan (abessive plural)
demokraattisittansa (abessive plural)
demokraattisineen (comitative plural)
demokraattisinensa (comitative plural)

Partial calque of Ancient Greek δημοκρατικός (dēmokratikós); demokraatti + -inen.

pcal

δημοκρατικός

(US politics) related to the Democratic Party


boogaloo

en-noun

boogaloo (countable and uncountable, plural boogaloos)

/ˈbuːɡəˌluː/

/ˌbuːɡəˈluː/

Attested as a style of dance since at least January 1966 (and found in the titles of many songs around that time), perhaps from boogie (for the ending, compare crackaloo, hullabaloo). (Compare Spanish bugalú, the Spanish name for the style of music and dance.) Kent Harris used the stage name "Boogaloo" in the 1950s. The sense "sequel or repetition" refers to the title of Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984), a sequel which was considered to be so bad it became a cult classic. Compare the sense "black person" to boogalee, a term for a Cajun, attested since 1960 or earlier.

Today, boogaloo has seeped out of the gaming community and found fertile ground in militant fringe movements. That includes anarchists and others on the far left. But it's especially popular among right-wing militias and self-described patriot groups.

2020 January 10, Hannah Allam, “'Boogaloo' Is The New Far-Right Slang For Civil War”, in NPR:

This month, the party involved itself once again with the boogaloo movement, when Cohen spoke at a gun rights rally co-hosted by a self-described “boogaloo boy” in Richmond, Virginia. Cohen used his speech to argue relaxing gun laws could end police violence.

2020 August 23, Adam Gabbatt, “The Libertarian party was up and coming in 2016. What happened?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet slang, US politics) A hypothetical second American Civil War, in which far-right or antigovernment activists rise up against the government.


boll weevil

As the veteran columnist John Chamberlain put it back in 1982, the ATARI Democrats ‘include many of the Southern “boll weevil” contingent that has supported Reagan on taxes, [and]^([sic]) is for using government to channel investment money to the newer “high tech” industries.

2019, Richard Carr, quoting John Chamberlain, March of the Moderates […] , Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:

(US politics, informal, dated) A conservative Southern Democrat.


muckraker

John Bunyan
The Pilgrim's Progress
Theodore Roosevelt
muckraker

From muck + raker. Believed to have been coined following a 1906 speech by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he likened the investigative journalist to ‘the Man with the Muck-rake’, a character in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

"Oh, in many ways. There are two classes of people who are not welcomed on the Canal Zone—magazine writers and applicants for positions who have political influence back of them. The former are regarded as muckrakers, the latter as spies."

"Lady," says he, "the goil's nutty! You got a bughouse patient on your bands! This here talk about the white-slave traffic, ma'am… it's all the work o' these magazine muckrakers!"

en:Progressive-Era justice-seeker in 1890s-1920s span

(US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).


國情咨文

ㄍㄨㄛˊ ㄑㄧㄥˊ ㄗ ㄨㄣˊ

Гоцин Цзывэнь

/ku̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵⁵ wən³⁵/

/ku̯ɔ³⁵ t͡ɕʰiŋ³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵⁵ wən³⁵/

State of the Union Address
State of the Union Address

(US politics) State of the Union Address


Enrolled Bill

(US politics) Legislation that has been passed by both houses of Congress, signed by their presiding officers, and sent to the President for signature.


bigly

en-adj

bigly (comparative more bigly, superlative most bigly)

more bigly (comparative)
most bigly (superlative)

From Middle English bygly, biglie, byggly (“comfortable, stately, perfect”), borrowed from Old Norse byggiligr, byggviligr (“habitable”); equivalent to big (“to build, construct, live in, reside, dwell”) + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic byggilegur (“inhabitable, liveable”).

cog

"And steek it weel, thy biglie bower, / And by the rood thee sain; / And tell thy bedes in haly guise, / Till this ae night is gane!"

1806, Robert Jamieson, “Donul and Evir”, in Robert Jamieson, editor, Popular Ballads and Songs, from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient Danish Language, and a Few Originals by the Editor, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; Cadell and Davies, and John Murray, London, →OCLC, page 235:

When I was in my bigly bower, / I wore but what I would; / This night I'm lighter 'mang Willie's horse feet, / I fear I'll die for cold.

1828, Peter Buchan, “Burd Helen”, in Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland, hitherto Unpublished. With Explanatory Notes, by Peter Buchan, Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume II, Edinburgh: Printed for W[illiam] & D[avid] Laing, and J. Stevenson [et al.], →OCLC, page 35:

(Scotland, now obsolete elsewhere) Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing.


Clintonesque

en-adj

Clintonesque (comparative more Clintonesque, superlative most Clintonesque)

more Clintonesque (comparative)
most Clintonesque (superlative)

In a manner reminiscent of the style of politician and Bill's wife Hillary Clinton.


Reaganism

en-noun

Reaganism (countable and uncountable, plural Reaganisms)

(uncountable) The specific conservative ideology associated with the Reagan administration, 1981-1989.

(countable) A statement or position commonly associated with Ronald Reagan.


Shermanesque

en-adj

Shermanesque (comparative more Shermanesque, superlative most Shermanesque)

more Shermanesque (comparative)
most Shermanesque (superlative)

From Sherman + -esque, after American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman, who declined when being considered as a possible Republican candidate for the presidential election of 1884, saying, "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected."

Having the intent of refusing a nomination to public office, or of refusing to serve in such office if elected.

Shermanesque statement
William Tecumseh Sherman


PWA

Public Works Administration
w:Public Works Administration

(historical, US politics, 1933–1943) Initialism of Public Works Administration.


Hooverville

From Hoover + -ville, named after Herbert Hoover.

(historical) Any of many shantytowns established by the homeless in the United States in the Great Depression of the early twentieth century.


Clintonian

Clintonian (comparative more Clintonian, superlative most Clintonian)

more Clintonian (comparative)
most Clintonian (superlative)

"Obama's Clintonian circle: the abundance of Clinton veterans recruited by Obama may not be the change voters had in mind." (Yahoo Home Page, November 19, 2008 2:58PM (PST) ).

(US politics) Of or relating to Bill Clinton (born 1946), US politician who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

(US politics) Of or relating to Hillary Clinton (born 1947), US politician and wife of Bill Clinton.

(US politics) Of or relating to DeWitt Clinton (born 1769), US politician.


states' rights

(US politics, conservatism) Rights reserved to the 50 state governments of the United States that allow each one to set policy on some issues, rather than being subject to federal policy, especially in reference to their right to allow slavery before the Civil War.


Clintonista

(sometimes derogatory) A devoted admirer of one or more of the U.S. public figures in the Clinton family: Hillary, Bill, or Chelsea.


green state

(US politics) A state where the Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is influential.

(US politics, idiomatic, informal, uncommon) A U.S. state perceived as environmentally friendly.


I approve this message

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-I approve this message.wav

the elective law passed in 2002
w:Stand By Your Ad provision

(US politics) a phrase said by candidates for federal office to show their consent to comply with the elective law passed in 2002.


Clintonize

en-verb

Clintonize (third-person singular simple present Clintonizes, present participle Clintonizing, simple past and past participle Clintonized)

Clintonizes (present singular third-person)
Clintonizing (participle present)
Clintonized (participle past)
Clintonized (past)


running mate

My first decision after being assured of victory was to choose my running mate. I decided that I needed to compensate for my lack of experience in Washington, and seriously considered Senators John Glenn, Frank Church, Scoop Jackson, Ed Muskie, and Walter Mondale.

2011, Jimmy Carter, White House Diary, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5:

Noem’s latest justification for fatally shooting Cricket at her farm[…]comes as fellow Republicans have all but written off her chances of being chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate in November’s presidential election.

2024 May 5, Ramon Antonio Vargas, Edward Helmore, “Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(US politics) A candidate for the US vice-presidency.

ticketmate

political candidate on the same ticket or for US vice-presidency


value voter

(US politics) One who participates in elections and makes decisions based on issues such as religion, abortion, capital punishment and same-sex marriage.


Bidet

That's Joe Bidet.

1995 June 29, DDuchaine, “Steriods& Alzado”, in misc.fitness (Usenet):

Every minute it continues, it makes the aftermath problems more frightening to me," said Sen. Joe "Buckwheat" Bidet, Democrapic Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, a leftist group of foreign policy wonks, Bidet said he feels that a little careful bombing might be needed to help protect U.S. Special Forces operations, but it creates a scary problem. Bidet stressed that, like most Democratic weenies, he is afraid to challenge President Bush - but the "honeymoon' might get rockier soon."

2001 October 25, Crusader, “Steriods& Alzado”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

If Obama chose Joe Robinet Bidet for a running mate, he's not just covering his ass, he's cleaning it!

2008 August 25, Dennis, “it's Biden”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):

Trump calls Biden (Joe BIDET) 'another low I.Q. individual' after 2020.

2019 March 18, allise...@gmail.com, “Hey Fred ! ! ! Here's you another song to enjoy ...”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet):

Kamala Harris became the first woman to be given presidential powers on Friday as Joe Biden briefly transferred authority while he underwent a colonoscopy. Whether he's shitting his pants or farting on royalty, the *fake* president is usually causing a stink. Now they're even shoving cameras up his arse to prove it can talk.

2021 November 20, The Genetically Unmodified Paul Pot (Still a natural human being as God created), “Stinky Joe Bidet undergoes colonoscopy”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):

(Internet slang, US politics, derogatory, humorous) Joe Biden.


Super Tuesday

(US politics) The day in February or March on which a large number of states hold their primary elections for the process of nominating presidential candidates.


faithless elector

en-noun

faithless elector (plural faithless electors)

(US politics) A delegate selected to participate in an electoral college and assigned to a particular candidate who votes for a different candidate, usually to protest the already-determined outcome of the vote.


Reaganite

en-adj

Reaganite (comparative more Reaganite, superlative most Reaganite)

more Reaganite (comparative)
most Reaganite (superlative)

/ˈɹeɪɡənaɪt/

This is a show about light and dark, and as deftly as it mimics the glaring neon of Reaganite consumer culture, it tweaks the conspiracy theories blooming in the shadows.

2019 July 4, Sophie Gilbert, “The American Paranoia of Stranger Things 3”, in The Atlantic:

(US politics) Of or pertaining to Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989).


Reaganite

/ˈɹeɪɡənaɪt/

(US politics) A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.


DEM

Democratic Party
w:Democratic Party (United States)

(US politics) Abbreviation of Democratic Party.


death tax

(US politics, derogatory, dysphemistic) inheritance tax


LBJ

I got a letter from L.B.J,
it said, "This is your lucky day",
it's time to put your khaki trousers on.

1965, “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”, Tom Paxton (lyrics), Tom Paxton (music):

This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers.

2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:

Lyndon Baines Johnson
w:Lyndon B. Johnson

(US politics) Initialism of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US president.


CRP

The only major source whom the reporters reveal by name is Hugh Sloan, the slight young Nixon operative who resigned as treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President when he learned of C.R.P.’s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P.

1974 April 22, “The Press: Woodstein Meets Deep Throat”, in Time, →ISSN:

(historical, US politics) Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.


republicano

es-adj

republicano (feminine republicana, masculine plural republicanos, feminine plural republicanas)

republicana (feminine)
republicanos (masculine plural)
republicanas (feminine plural)


republicano

es-noun

republicano m (plural republicanos, feminine republicana, feminine plural republicanas)

republicanos (plural)
republicana (feminine)
republicanas (feminine plural)


Democratic

The most recent Democratic president of the United States is Joe Biden.

(US politics) Of, pertaining to, or supporting the Democratic Party.


悪の枢軸

悪の枢軸 (canonical)
aku no sūjiku (romanization)

[a̠kɯ̟ no̞ sɨːʑikɯ̟]


Obama

Translingual: Obamadon, Obamus, Etheostoma obama (spangled darter), Tosanoides obama, Caloplaca obamae (Obama lichen)

Corruption of by-name Luo Mobam (“born with a crooked back”), itself from Luo obam (“to lean or bend”).

(The Browns gave the Obamas an ornate penholder made from the timber of a Victorian antislave ship.)

2009 March 4, Helene Cooper, “Obama’s Star Turn at Summit Gets Mixed Results”, in The New York Times:

From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”

2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States of America.