"Somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan" nghĩa là gì?

"Somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan" = đâu đó bên cánh hữu Thành Cát Tư Hãn -> nghĩa là nói đến người cực kỳ bảo thủ hoặc cuồng tín (cánh hữu) trong chính trị hoặc tín ngưỡng. Cụm từ phê phán tư tưởng chính trị cực hữu (far-right) liên tưởng tới chế độ cai trị man rợ và chuyên chế của Thành Cát Tư Hãn.

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And they often put such things in ludicrous (lố bịch) extremes: “I could shoot them all,” “my politics are slightly to the right of Genghis Khan,” and so on. So one thing that warrants (đảm bảo) our analysis is that this is a rather colorful feature of these data.

In 1985, when Catholic bishops (giám mục) were no longer automatically treated with reverence (tôn kính), a Magill magazine profile called him the 'Mullah of Limerick' (a nickname first pinned on him by Conor Cruise O'Brien), perceived in liberal Dublin circles to be on the right of Genghis Khan.

Because of his patriotism (lòng ái quốc), many thought of Fred as an extreme conservative (bảo thủ cực đoan) (“somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan,” quipped (châm biếm) one colleague), but that was a glib (thoáng qua) analysis. Kerr's problem was that he was disgusted by the tyrannical (chuyên chế) extremes of either the left-wing bureaucrat (quan liêu) or the right-wing petty dictator (tiểu nhân), as he would call them.

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