Meaning of Atari Democrat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Atari Democrat.
   alt-of
2. A member of the US Democratic Party who emphasizes the role of high tech, in particular information technology, for economic growth.
   US, historical, informal

Examples

“[Paul] Tsongas was, perhaps, the original neoliberal and Atari Democrat. In 1980, he had shocked the audience at an Americans for Democratic Action gathering by urging them to focus on economic growth rather than the redistribution of wealth and by advocating the deregulation of natural gas prices.”

“When Walter Mondale, a traditional New Deal liberal […] lost by a wide margin to Reagan in the presidential election of 1984, the Atari Democrats joined a larger group of frustrated Democratic officials to found the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).”

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