carpetbagger

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After the Civil war the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south.
美国内战以后，北方的外来者试图控制南方。
I'm going to make friends with the Yankee carpetbaggers now and I'll beat them at their own game, and you'll beat them with me.
我会和那些北佬投机家们交朋友的，我会运用他们自己制定的游戏规则来击败他们，你要和我一起来击败他们。
"But they come through here like carpetbaggers, " he added. " They just kind of show up on the scene, do a game, disappear, and then come back two years later.
“但是他们在这儿的所作所为更像一个投机者，”他说“他们仅仅关心表面文章，玩一场游戏，消失，然后两年后回来。
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Many of the new governors and state officials were carpetbaggers from outside the state.
Southerners also had a name for their own people who cooperated with the carpetbaggers.
They had a special name for them: carpetbaggers.

It also played bad cop, in part by painting protesters as carpetbaggers.
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(POLITICS) someone who tries to be elected as a politician in a place away from their home because they think there is a greater chance of succeeding there
(MONEY) someone who invests in a financial organization that is owned by its members, in order to make a profit if it is sold

If you call someone a carpetbagger, you disapprove of them because they are trying to become a politician in an area which is not their home, simply because they think they are more likely to succeed there.