Why Democrats Don’t Cry ‘DINO’

Perhaps Republicans could learn something here.

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) leads a group of legislators to introduce a bill to ban Russian energy imports at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 3, 2022.

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I despise the term RINO — Republican in Name Only. It splits the Republican Party year after year, and its persistence hands the Democrats power in Congress they would not otherwise be able to earn. I never hear the term DINO — Democrat in Name Only — because the Democrats are too smart for that.

Within the Democratic Party are avowed socialists (Bernie Sanders) together with senators and representatives who represent Montana, Arizona, and other generally red states — states that have long traditions of independence and free-market values. In other words, the Democratic Party is at least as divided politically as the Republican Party, but we don’t hear Democrats routinely denounce one another as fakes.

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Peter J. Wallison

Peter J. Wallison is a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute. He was White House Counsel and General Counsel of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.

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