standpatters

standpatters,

in U.S. history, term used early in the 20th cent. to designate conservatives in the Republican party as against the InsurgentsInsurgents,
in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon.
..... Click the link for more information. or progressive Republicans. The term is said to have originated in Mark Hanna's remark concerning an election—all that was necessary for Republican success was, in poker parlance, to "stand pat."

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But when advocates in education work to conserve effective schools and educational practices and to protect them from rash experiments, such educational conservationists are often dismissed as standpatters, foes of progress.

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It is ill-advised to wait as the system deteriorates at an increasingly rapid rate until the crisis that the Study Committee described becomes apparent to even the standpatters of today.

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29), for example, the success of democratization hinges largely on the ability of "liberal reformers" within the government to outmaneuver the standpatters.

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But liberalized authoritarianisms turn out to be inherently unstable, dividing regimes between standpatters, who want to re-create the status quo ante, and reformers, who want to continue liberalization.

Transplacements occur only when reformers are stronger than standpatters in the government and moderates are stronger than extremists in the opposition.