Republicratn.adj.
/rᵻˈpʌblᵻkrat/, U.S. /rəˈpəbləˌkræt/, /riˈpəbləˌkræt/ U.S. Politics.
A. n.
A person who supports aspects of both the Republican and Democratic parties, esp. a conservative Democrat with Republican sympathies; a member of the mainstream American political establishment in which the Democratic and Republican parties are regarded as ideologically indistinguishable. Also: a member of a political grouping that includes both Republicans and Democrats.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > supporter of Republicans and Democrats
Republicrat1872
1872 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 21 Aug. (heading) Ode to Horace. (By a Liberal Republicrat.)
1909 Cent. Mag. Oct. 850/2 Prefacing with a statement that he was ‘a Cleveland-Reed Republicrat’.
1922 Life 6 Apr. 22/1 Others, with more loyalcy to their party obligations, said that in spite of its unusualcy, the word [sc. normalcy] was perfectly all right, and no good Republicrat should make a face at it.
1946 Time 22 Apr. 11/1 Would you be good enough to give us the names of the ‘republocrats’ in the House and Senate who have organized for the purpose of defeating President Truman's legislative program?
1979 Time (Electronic ed.) 18 June Dreyfus is a self-styled ‘Republicrat’. He only joined the G.O.P. in 1977.
1992 G. Will Restoration i. 35 After prolonged immersion in Washington's culture of ruling, there is not a dime's worth of difference between..Democrans and Republicrats.
2000 N.Y. Times 28 Oct. a13/4 Mr. Nader..described Mr. Gore's running mate, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, as ‘the quintessential hermaphrodite of American politics—a Republicrat’.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Republicrats. Frequently in Republicrat party.
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1881 Ohio Law Jrnl. 12 May 365/2 He then ran for Constable on the Republicrat Ticket but Was made the victim of a conspiracy between the traitor, Tom Jones, And his friends, and the entire Demoblican Party.
1901 E. Blum & S. B. Alexander Who Lies? vii. 143 The Hon. Thomas Browne was seated at his desk in his office, busy with a formidable pile of correspondence regarding the approaching election, for which he had been renominated by the Republicrat Party.
1962 A. F. Westin & H. D. Price Uses of Power 279 At the same time, it is the Republicrat tendencies of the Democratic leaders that have brought about the conflict over party loyalty.
2001 M. Abu-Jamal All Things Censored 205 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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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