old-line party
Britishnoun
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As described in Politico, it calls for a display of muscular support from large donors and old-line party insiders such as the firefighters union.
From Washington Post
Such charges may be in keeping with old-line Party orthodoxy, but they sound very strange coming from a political system that jettisoned the socialist economy four decades ago in favor of a market capitalism that has taught the population to prioritize self-interest, material wealth, and class status above all else.
From The New Yorker
She also exposed the fault line in the Arizona G.O.P., which is divided between the old-line Party establishment, which Flake and John McCain embodied, and a seething base of Trump supporters.
From The New Yorker
"Computerji," as he became known, long ago found that he and his privileged circle of technology lovers were not equal to the task of budging old-line party pros and the bureaucracy-infested Industrial Raj.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old-line party financiers who actively supported Walter Mondale in 1984 find Hart's diffident style difficult to accept.
From Time Magazine Archive
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