sign is posted listing available goods and services. One of the items listed is "Jerked Quisling (by the neck)". 21st century In the early 21st century, the term demonstrated continued currency as it was used by some American writers to describe President Donald Trump and his associates based on the theory that Russia interfered with the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. For example, in a June 2018 New York Times column, Paul Krugman called US President Trump a "quisling", in reference to what Krugman described as Trump's "serv[ing] the interests of foreign masters at his own country's expense" and "defend[ing] Russia while attacking our closest allies". Other publications also applied the term. For instance, Joe Scarborough in The Washington Post ("These are desperate times for the quislings of Trump"), Rich Lowry in Politico ("The GOP elite... is the quisling establishment"), former United States Mint director Philip N. Diehl in The Hill ("The historical reference that more aptly applies to pro-Trump Republicans is that of the Quislings"), David Driesen in History News Network ("Trump seeks a government of quislings"), Dick Polman on NPR station WHYY-FM ("Ever since last summer, most Republicans have marinated in their cowardice... The next step toward home-grown tyranny – the quisling phase – has already begun"), and so forth. On 7 July 2020, Lord Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong, described Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong as a “lamentable Quisling figure in Hong Kong's history”. On 10 February 2022, Patten expanded his use of the term Quislings to describe Lam, the Hong Kong Police Force, and the Judiciary of Hong Kong, during a debate on Nationality and Borders Bill. See also Collaborationism Eponym vs. Namesake Fifth column Treason Chinilpa Mir Jafar Hanjian Malinchism Benedict Arnold Jayachandra Robert Lundy Wang Jingwei References Further reading Hayes, Paul M., Quisling: the Career and Political Ideas of Vidkun Quisling 1887-1945 (David & Charles, 1971) Borgersrud, Lars. "9 April revised: on the Norwegian history tradition after Magne Skodvin on Quisling and the invasion of Norway in 19401." Scandinavian Journal of History 39.3 (2014): 353–397, historiography Dahl, Hans Fredrik. Quisling: a study in treachery (Cambridge UP, 1999). External links English words Norwegian words and phrases Political slurs for people Treason 1940s neologisms Vidkun Quisling