But after 10 years as political outcasts, Democrats have vowed not to repeat the mistakes of 1990.
A young man in prison for stealing a car is made a political outcast the same as a murderer.
His spectacular rise to power, after years as a political outcast, seemed based on competence alone and he is respected in China for his intellect.
Far from being a practical political outcast, she was in fact a member of the Republican National Committee at the time.
Negotiators speculated that at the last minute both men were sobered by the prospect of becoming political outcasts.
Chile has a tradition of being a country were political outcasts can build a new life.
Many analysts shrugged off the two leaders as political outcasts trying vainly to keep their careers alive.
He was freed, but with Lenin's death in 1924, he lost his only protector, and remained a political outcast, constantly watched by state security.
In certain respects a major saint-cult was a liability: it usually meant the existence of a refuge to which political outcasts might flee.
She became a political outcast, rejected by the people who had once worshipped her.