establishment Republican

noun

A moderate or liberal member of the US Republican Party.

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Meanings

nounestablishment Republican (plural establishment Republicans)

plural establishment Republicans

  1. USgovernmentA moderate or liberal member of the US Republican Party.

    Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off.

    2017 October 21, Peter Wehner, “Going Against the Republican Herd”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 共和黨建制派 /共和党建制派
  • 共和黨建制派 /共和党建制派 (gònghédǎng jiànzhìpài)Translations
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Chicago

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