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Republicrat en · ADJ

Blend of Republican + Democrat.

(US, derogatory) Characteristic of a Republicrat.
- Given how often he votes with the opposition, Joe Manchin's ideology is very much Republicrat.

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Blend of Republican + Democrat.

(US, derogatory) A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party.
- This hybrid voting behavior may be called "Republicrat", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics. 1966, Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States, page 70:
(US, attributive, derogatory) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties.
- Rather, we have a single Republicrat party of greedy, self-serving, amoral, power-driven professional politicians... 2005, Holliston Perni, A Heritage of Hypocrisy: Why 'They' Hate Us, page 4:
- We need to make people understand that decisions being made on local levels are often far more influential in our lives and probably the only real way — unless we're able to radically change the way our one-party Republicrat system works — to make change. 2001, Daniel Sinker, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet : the Collected Interviews, page 290:
- Both wings of the ruling "Republicrat" Party try to outdo themselves in announcing new, ever more draconian measures to restrict, repress, restrain, and eliminate the poor. 2004, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States, page 567:

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