democrat
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“I’m a small-d democrat, and I think that people will vote with their feet and will embrace this museum as their own.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Critics call him extreme, though he recently told AFP he was a democrat who would "respect the constitution."
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
He could be pretty high-and-mighty, and certainly not exactly a small-d democrat.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026
Gibbon, no democrat, spent much of his time reading voraciously and carried some English biases and feuds into his writing, but he illuminated Augustus’ strategies in ways that America’s framers found sobering, cautionary and salutary.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
A few relics of this great democrat are still to be seen in his cell.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by William Wiehe Collins
The outcry from Mexican democrats who cherish free speech has been extraordinary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Nature Friends is a branch of Naturfreunde, founded in 1895 by social democrats to enrich the lives of factory workers in Vienna.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025
Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green offered her take on a compromise: seating loyal democrats from both parties.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2024
The country's foreign minister Hassoumi Massoudou also issued a rallying cry on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, for "all democrats and patriots" to make the coup fail.
From Reuters ● Jul. 27, 2023
The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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