Meaning of Republicrat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   US, derogatory
2. The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties.
   US, attributive, derogatory

Examples

“This hybrid voting behavior may be called "Republicrat", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Rather, we have a single Republicrat party of greedy, self-serving, amoral, power-driven professional politicians...”

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