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Recent Examples of radicalism
Somehow, this respectable foe of radicalism had organized the political realignment that broke up the Union, sustained the war that overthrew the South’s ruling class, and managed the struggle that emancipated its proletariat.
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Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The Democrats’ new embrace of immigration radicalism is being led by none other than Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who initially seemed desirous of presiding over a pivot back to the center.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
Her life read a bit like a cautionary tale against the rigidities of radicalism.
—Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
But that reputation for radicalism was a little misleading.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The Democrats’ new embrace of immigration radicalism is being led by none other than Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who initially seemed desirous of presiding over a pivot back to the center.
—W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
Her life read a bit like a cautionary tale against the rigidities of radicalism.
—Hazlitt, 11 June 2025
But that reputation for radicalism was a little misleading.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for radicalism
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Florida’s voters, and their leaders in Washington, shouldn’t want to duplicate the medical horrors of socialism.—
Michelle Flowers,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 July 2025
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Concha noted that this lack of knowledge of socialism represents Mamdani’s voter base.—
Asher Notheis,
The Washington Examiner,
9 July 2025
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One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.—
Mike Dunleavy,
New York Daily News,
14 July 2025
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Many of those dismissed worked on issues including countering violent extremism, helping Afghans who fled after the Taliban takeover, educational exchanges, and programs supporting women's rights, refugees, and climate change.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
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Yet what Grant didn’t foresee is that this kind of liberalism could form an effective resistance against Yankee imperialism.—
Zack Beauchamp,
Vox,
2 July 2025
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Conservatives, by contrast, paint liberalism as a cultural leviathan that has trampled traditional values underfoot.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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“Radicalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/radicalism. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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