Definition of banana republic
: a small dependent country usually of the tropics;
especially
: one run despotically
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Managers, who have the shelf life of banana republic dictators, hit bricks more than Padres hit baseballs.
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Increasingly, the United States — which had long been a symbol of stability and seriousness — is being seen as a banana republic, or, rather, a once serious nation run by an unstable egomaniac.
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One of the things that keeps the United States from turning into a banana republic is the cynical, often hypocritical attacks on corruption employed by both parties.
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Rather than address Trump’s unfitness, GOP leaders (and Trump) are plunging America into banana republic-style authoritarianism.
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That, like in some small, faraway banana republic, there is no longer an independent system of justice.
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Still, his pressure for Democrats to join his banana republic-style coup will hurt many of that party’s candidates in close contests, regardless of their answer.
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President Trump, after all, likes to keep it in the family, like a mom-and-pop restaurant or the government of a banana republic.
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This is what leaders do in banana republics: Instruct the people with guns to join the political fray.
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First Known Use of banana republic
1904
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