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JediMasterPepe 17 points ago +18 / -1

I' e always used the term, specifically when asking normies this question:

Why are there RINOs but no DINOs? Why does 1 group have to try to play both sides to get their way?

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quigonkenny 11 points ago +11 / -0

There are many fewer DINOs than RINOs for two reasons:

One, because the Democrat Party is inherently collectivist. You don't usually get far enough in it to see public office if you aren't already part of the groupthink.

Two, the political environment in Washington has become leftist and collectivist. If you want to do anything outside their worldview without being confronted at every turn, you have to "go along to get along" to some degree. Even principled centrists and right wingers can get beaten down, facing this constant opposition, so very few are able to succeed without some compromising of their values, and those who are just there to gain power simply give in every time while decrying the corruption to their constituents back home when they need to be re-elected.

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Worldtraveler0405 3 points ago +3 / -0

You think Joe Manchin is a DINO? Considering he voted on Kavanaugh, against the demands of Darth Feinstein, when Lisa Murkowski did cave in as the RINO.

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SendThemBackToCanada 3 points ago +3 / -0

No, he is conservative Democrat. He is very much a Democrat.

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Worldtraveler0405 2 points ago +2 / -0

Does a Conservative Democrat even exist? Like Bill Clinton etc?

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SendThemBackToCanada 2 points ago +2 / -0

They do but they voted in lock step with the Democrat Party. Hence why the conservative Democrats should be eradicated from the Senate and the House. They are way more unreliable than RINOs in voting.

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Mareep 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes. They have been almost entirely stamped out of Congress by the prevailing winds in the party, but there's a reason that so many Trump voters in the midwest and rust belt are ancestral Democrats.