liberalism
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conservatism, illiberalism, immobilism, right
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In contrast to Jackson's fervent liberalism, Wilder backed capital punishment and right-to-work laws, earned plaudits from conservative commentators, and boasted of his refusal to close his state's budget shortfall by raising taxes. — Steve Kornacki, NBC News, "1992: Bill Clinton builds a winning coalition, Jackson is diminished," 29 July 2019 This was a self-conception of the United States carefully cultivated by cold war liberalism and seemingly fulfilled in the Clinton era of American power. — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, "Democracy and Its Discontents," 6 June 2019 There are also references foreboding darker directions for post-liberalism. — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, "Is Josh Hawley For Real?," 25 July 2019 The Hunnic past—martial, autocratic, and patriarchal—stands in clear opposition to contemporary liberalism. — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, "The Call of the Drums," 21 July 2019 That leaves O’Rourke and Buttigieg some where in limbo -- with enough support to make the next round but vying for support for their more traditional form of liberalism. — Jennifer Epstein, Fortune, "Sanders and Warren Fend Off Attacks During Second Democratic Debate," 30 July 2019 Proponents of a return to economic liberalism included University of Chicago economists Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. — John Broich, The Conversation, "The difference between ‘left’ and ‘liberal’ – and why voters need to know," 30 July 2019 For decades, Republicans in Washington, dismayed at the judicial liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s, have made judicial appointments a higher priority than Democrats have. — Joan Biskupic, Washington Post, "The partisan players transforming the Supreme Court," 21 June 2019 The Blair-Cameron-Clinton liberalism that dominated politics in the 1990s and early 2000s is exhausted. — The Economist, "On Britain beyond Brexit and the future of Conservatism," 18 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'liberalism.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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