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2023-10-23 22:52:13 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 89FA67BB4C0D5EEF7F04C31F7CA27DDCD858115B60991E47D48252A19E3A9354
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The phrase Republican In Name Only emerged as a popular political pejorative in the 1920s, 1950s, and 1980s. The earliest known print appearance of the term RINO was in the Manchester, New Hampshire newspaper then called The Union Leader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_in_Name_Only#Origins https://web.archive.org/web/20140716181224/http://www.wordspy.com/words/RINO.asp
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