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bigotocracy en · NOUN

Etymology

From bigot + -ocracy. A term used to describe the presidency of Donald Trump following his initial comments regarding the actions of white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, uncountable) Rule by bigots.
    • I might have my Issues with Americans, but I certainly very much prefer them to your benighted bigotocracy. 2007 June 26, Mścisław Wojna-Bojewski, “Re: Linguist/Consultant Needed”, in sci.lang (Usenet):
    • [> > The bigots of the Jim Crow days thought they had good reasons, too.] As if you are so sure that we have ever lived in a bigotocracy. 1994 November 18, Travis Kidd, “Re: Reverse Discrimination”, in bit.listserv.politics (Usenet):
    • Together they constitute the repulsive resurgence of a virulent bigotocracy. ¶ This bigotocracy overlooks fundamental facts about slavery in this country: that blacks were stolen from their African homeland to toil for no wages in American dirt. 2017 August 12, Michael Eric Dyson, “Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy”, in New York Times: