Lexicon of Politics: Day 11

I saw a variation of this phrase in John Bliese's thought provoking book The Greening of Conservative America, and sure enough found it in the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (actually, Bliese uses "banana republic")...

banana superpower n. a dominant nation which behaves like a weaker country with a fraction of its resources.

1997 Washington Times (Sept. 5) A3: Mr. Reagan criticized President Clinton for turning America into a "banana superpower" and nailed Republicans for doing nothing.

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