reich-wing
See also: Reich-wing and Reich wing
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBlend of Reich + right-wing, with the intent being to convey the view that the political right shares qualities with the Third Reich, being extreme, fascistic, etc.
Adjective
editreich-wing (comparative more reich-wing, superlative most reich-wing)
- (US, slang, derogatory) Right-wing.
- 2012, Mark Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, University of Minnesota Press (2012) →ISBN, page 63:
- But the hidden costs of our overcompensatory hypermacho are worse, far worse, than a few politicians slimed by Reich-wing pundits or dirty-tricks campaigns.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:reich-wing.