But with social networking still in its infancy, the opponents had no recourse but plain ol' name calling. Each side hated the other, and each side insulted the other. On one end of the ring were the Royalists, the king's supporters. We're not going to bury you in too many details from that war, but we'll just remind you that it had two sides, as civil wars tend to. This one goes back to the English civil war of the 17th century.
Not bad for a word that used to mean 'brutal, murderous asshole.'
