Monday, March 21, 2022

How the GOP's dirtiest slur got a new life

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/20/republicans-2022-campaigns-00018591

While the RINO term has been employed in some form for more than 100 years, its meaning has shifted over time. In previous decades, a Republican risked getting tagged as a RINO for supporting tax increases, gun control or abortion rights. Today, in a reflection of the GOP’s murkier ideological grounding in the Trump era, it’s a term reserved almost exclusively for lack of fealty to Trump.

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