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fellow traveler

noun

a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
anyone who, although not a member, supports or sympathizes with some organization, movement, or the like.

fellow traveler

One who supports the aims or philosophies of a political group without joining it. A “fellow traveler” is usually one who sympathizes with communist doctrines but is not a member of the Communist party . The term was used disparagingly in the 1950s to describe people accused of being communists.

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She went on to tweet 64 times on the subject of her nightmare fellow traveler.

Exit the fellow traveler, looking for a movie far from the madding goons at Winterland.

Down in the white-supremacy cesspool of Stormfront.org, some contributors thought they recognized a fellow traveler.

Keep pumping in money while appointing some fellow-traveler bloggers to run GM?

His fellow-traveler likewise stood with folded hands, and gazed upon the forest, and the towns that lay in the bright sunshine.

He capered along on the high-road, as he returned to the inn where his fellow-traveler was waiting his return.

But the fellow-traveler made himself invisible; and as he flew behind the princess, he thrashed her with his rod till she bled.

But nobody could see the fellow-traveler, who had placed himself right behind the throne, where he could see and hear everything.

The fellow-traveler was likewise much rejoiced on hearing how matters had turned out.

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