frontlash
English
Etymology
Blend of front + backlash, coined by US president Lyndon B. Johnson with regard to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The word is still mainly used in reference to that Act.
Noun
frontlash (plural frontlashes)
- A swell of support for a proposal that counters any backlash.
- 1996, Richard M. Pious, The Presidency (page 89)
- When a president uses expansive powers and his policy works, he may benefit from a frontlash effect: the successful assertion of power will not only yield political dividends, it will also strengthen the office of the presidency itself.
- 1996, Richard M. Pious, The Presidency (page 89)