Republocrat

Noun

Republicrat (plural Republicrats)

1. (US, 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.
   • This hybrid voting behavior may be called "Republicrat", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics.1966, Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States, page 70
2. (US, attributive, derogatory) The two-party system, characterized as a single organization that excludes the participation and views of third parties.
   • 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.2001, Daniel Sinker, We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet : the Collected Interviews, page 290

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