as long as there are ideologues controlling both sides of the aisle, legislative compromise is out of the question
the revolutionaries proved to be impractical ideologues who had no idea how to run a country
Recent Examples on the WebBut a revolt among moderates and GOP lawmakers in at-risk seats put that sect of the party on a collision course with the conservative ideologues.—Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024 With less to do, people spent more time inside their homes watching TV, where right-wing pundits and ideologues thrived.—Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024 The article showed Reddit employees grappling with tough decisions about barring Nazis, racists and violent ideologues from their platform.—Kevin Roose, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024 The movement’s chief ideologue, Martin Sellner, was one of the central players in the secret meeting and is a longtime proponent of mass deportations.—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024 Villeneuve may be more cinematic logician than ideologue, but, in implicating Paul as a possible charlatan, the director shrewdly feeds our own uneasiness.—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2024 This vacuum allows ideologues to redefine the academic integrity decision as a victory for racial bigotry.—Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024 The result will effectively be a bifurcation of the asset into a form of bitcoin for investment and a bitcoin for bitcoin’s sake—held only by ideologues.—Joel Khalili, WIRED, 11 Jan. 2024 On the left and right alike, extremists and ideologues have been emboldened while moderate voices go ignored.—Guy Denton, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
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