Liberal Republicanとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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liberal Republican (複数形 liberal Republicans)

1. (US, politics) A member of the Republican Party who espouses progressive views, often on civil rights or the role of government.
   • 2015, Julian E. Zelizer, The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society^[1]:

     [Charles] Percy could attract moderate voters who were scared about the turbulence on the streets but not ready to side with right-wing conservatism. He was a liberal Republican who supported civil rights but could still distance himself from [Lyndon] Johnson's record.

   • 1990, Robert D. Loevy, To end all segregation: the politics of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964^[2], page 36:

     Keating joined with six other liberal Republican senators to introduce a package of bills which would implement the Civil Rights Commission recommendations of 1961 which the Kennedy administration had so purposefully ignored.

   • 2004, Sean Savage, JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party^[3], SUNY Press, page 277:

     Mark Hatfield, the liberal Republican governor of Oregon, was elected to the Senate in 1966. He defeated a Democratic congressman, Robert Duncan, who was a staunch supporter of LBJ's policies in Vietnam. Hatfield had nationally distinguished himself as the only Republican governor to vote against a resolution supporting the war in Vietnam at the Governors Conference in Los Angeles in April 1966.