Cloth coat Republican

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Cloth coat Republican is a phrase that conjures the "old wing" of the Republican Party in the United States.

The "cloth coat" is intended to contrast with the "fur coat" worn by the privileged wives of political men. The "ideal" was Pat Nixon, the wife of Richard M. Nixon, a self-made man, who was utterly paranoid in so many ways we will only address one here: he was from the "folk", not the select few who went to Ivy League colleges and lived lives of pre-ordained privilege. As such, he hated the people who had managed to climb the ladder of power with assistance from their relatives and backgrounds, and tried to emphasize his struggle to succeed in spite of all odds. Classic quote that encapsulates his particular perspective: "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore".

Dwight D. Eisenhower was also arguably a "cloth coat Republican" - as were, probably, many members of the party before the ascension of Ronald Reagan and the Bush dynasty.

Would that the party once again represented Main Street and the Rotary Club types who built it, rather than Wall Street and extraction industry executives.