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Egalitarians supposedly come apart, with dirty tricks inspiring criminality at first (10,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

democratic party

'egalitarians supposedly' is the definition.

'come apart with dirty tricks inspiring criminality at first' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'tricks' indicates anagramming the letters.
'inspiring' is an insertion indicator.
'at first' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'criminality' is 'c'.
'apart' put after 'dirty' is 'dirtyapart'.
'come'+'dirtyapart'='comedirtyapart'
'comedirtyapart' with letters rearranged gives 'demoraticparty'.
'demoraticparty' placed around 'c' is 'DEMOCRATIC PARTY'.

(Another definition for democratic party that I've seen is " Republican's opponents?".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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