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Ryan understood there was no way to compete with that without becoming the Poindexter cuckservative par excellence, which is what happened to him anyway.

He dismissed one Republican rival as a “cuckservative” and assailed David Hogg, the teen gun control activist, as “that punk” who has “been brainwashed.”

Last year, Mr. Stewart used an alt-right slur, “cuckservative,” to suggest that an opponent in the Republican governor’s primary had failed to put the white race first.

He also indulged the rhetoric of the “alt-right,” blasting Gillespie as a “cuckservative” during a question-and-answer session on Reddit, mingling online with some of Trump’s most fervent supporters.

Indeed, as Slate’s Jamelle Bouie noted at the time, Stewart “was running as a voice for Trumpism, railing against ‘illegal immigration,’ condemning ‘transgender bathrooms,’ slamming Gillespie as a ‘cuckservative,’ and centering his campaign on an aggressive defense of the state’s Confederate monuments and memorials.”