Republicrat

English

Etymology

Blend of Republican +‎ Democrat

Noun

Republicrat (plural Republicrats)

1. (US politics, 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.
   • 1966, Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States, page 70:

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

2. (US politics, derogatory, attributive) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties.
   • 2001, Daniel Sinker, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet : the Collected Interviews, page 290:

     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.

   • 2004, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove, Voices of a People's History of the United States, page 567:

     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.

   • 2005, Holliston Perni, A Heritage of Hypocrisy: Why 'They' Hate Us, page 4:

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