reich-wing

See also: Reich-wing and Reich wing

English

Alternative forms

• Reich-wing
• Reich wing

Etymology

Blend 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

reich-wing (comparative more reich-wing, superlative most reich-wing)

1. (US, slang, derogatory) Right-wing.
   • 2005, Cindy Sheehan, Not One More Mother's Child, Koa Books, →ISBN, page 139:

     I love the love and support of America; it is what sustains me through these very difficult times and the reich-wing smear campaign.

   • 2006 October 11, none [username], “Re: Neither Liberal Nor Hypocrisy”, in alt.society.liberalism‎^[1] (Usenet):

     So, you reich-wing HypoChristians might want to remove the beam from your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbor's eye.

   • 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.

   Synonyms: far right, ultraconservative