Brave person, a Democrat, following heart -- frequently moderate, politically?
I believe the answer is:
middle-of-the-road
'moderate politically?' is the definition.
'brave person a democrat following heart frequently' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'person' could be 'hero' (hero is a kind of person) and 'hero' is present in the answer.
'a' is within the answer.
'democrat' could be 'd' and 'd' is found within the answer.
'following' could be 'f' (used when citing page numbers etc) and 'f' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for middle-of-the-road that I've seen before include "place for dangerous drivers?" , "Unexciting" , "Average" , "Avoiding extremes; moderate" , "Safe" .)