establishment Republican

English

Noun

establishment Republican (plural establishment Republicans)

1. (US politics) A moderate or liberal member of the US Republican Party.

   Coordinate terms: RINO, Rockefeller Republican

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

     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.