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Currently Democrat’s moving to the right. Such a creep! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

toady

'creep' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'currently democrat's moving to the right such a' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'to' is found in the answer.
'a' is present in the answer.
'democrat' could be 'd' and 'd' is located in the answer.
A single letter 'y' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

(Other definitions for toady that I've seen before include "Obsequious type" , "Obsequious person" , "crawler" , "Flatterer or sycophant" , "fawn" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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