I'm going to bring back the term "quisling"!! Who's with me?

[Coventina]

[H2O Man]

1. Recommended.

Thank you. That gives me a term that I can use in public that no maga cultist will understand. It's been a few years since I've heard or seen it!

[Ocelot II]

2. I've said that all along.

Quisling served as the puppet leader of his country under Nazi rule. In Europe his name is synonymous with "traitor" as Benedict Arnold is here.

[MineralMan]

3. To whom will you attach that appellation?

I advise considerable caution...

[Walleye]

4. I've been thinking of that word throughout this whole campaign

Especially the women who supported Trump. Quislings, perfect.

[haele]

5. I'm fine with that.

Putin's Quislings rolls off the tongue better than *rumpistas.

Haele

[debm55]

6. I used it as a password on a card from a closed store. That was a long time ago. I liked it.

[elleng]

7. a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country.

[brush]

8. I'm with you. (R) will follow?

[Coventina]

9. I like it! Yes!! n/t

[beaglelover]

10. In the LGBTQIA+ community we have been using this term for the Log Cabin Republicans for years.

[Gore1FL]

11. I laways assumed that was what the Q stood for in Qanon. nt

[FreepFryer]

12. The Danish and Norwegian resistance to occupation is eminently applicable current reading...

…I recommend folks look into the history of the ‘polite’ Scandinavian resistance to Nazism (which was a fascinating local blend of effective Nordic disdain for Nazi race obsession, coordinated nonviolent civil disobedience and more active forms of resistance). For example, see Quisling and the Teachers’ Action. https://medium.com/memory-action/why-did-norwegian-teachers-wear-paper-clips-during-world-war-ii-5a9aa379e293

[Ocelot II]

13. The reason for my paperclip avatar

and the one I have clipped to my sweater.

[House of Roberts]

14. I've been calling Grover Norquist

'Norquisling' for years. Pretty much works with any so-called conservative, IMO.

[electric_blue68]

15. I didn't know what it meant till a previous thread.