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In the House and Senate during Biden's term, a couple of the Democrats frequently voted against the rest of them, earning themselves the Democrats In Name Only appellation--DINOs. That seemed particularly descriptive, especially for West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who voted against his party in the interests of Big Coal.
At the same time, someone taught Donald Trump a term to use in tandem with his threat to primary any Republican who didn't vote his way all the time, Republican In Name Only--RINO. Once he added that to his stock of hackneyed slams it was a common one for him. Indeed, most of those Republicans in Congress or the Senate who have disagreed with him either retired during his first term or have announced their retirement during his second term.
Janet Yellen has inspired another term when she referred to the construction of Trump's economic ideas if he is allowed to replace Jerome Powell as the head of the Federal Reserve as those of a "banana republic economy,"[1] a country run by a dictator who let's inflation run rampant by, as she says, just "printing money" for his own use. Let's call Trump and all in his party who support his strongman takeover of the US economy Banana Republicans.
[1] https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/janet-yellen-on-the-danger-of-a-banana-republic-economy
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