Definition of ILLIBERALISM

Examples of illiberalism in a Sentence

a woman who fails to see that her unexamined faith in political liberalism actually makes her guilty of illiberalism

Recent Examples on the Web

Charlottesville has experienced Trump’s illiberalism first-hand Part of the outrage centers on the Miller Center’s location. — Nicole Hemmer, Vox, "Ex-Trump staffers should not get plum jobs at elite universities," 24 July 2018 Advanced communications and computing technologies, once thought to be forces for cooperation and freedom, have been turned into weapons of illiberalism. — Robert Kagan, WSJ, "The Cost of American Retreat," 7 Sep. 2018 The illiberalism here lies with the law’s critics, who would deny the Jewish state the freedom to legislate like a normal country. — Eugene Kontorovich, WSJ, "Get Over It—Israel Is the Jewish State," 19 July 2018 Donald Trump did not ignite but merely joined a miserable, destabilizing trend of illiberalism that has been under way for years in Russia, Turkey, China, India, Southeast Asia, and Western, Eastern, and Central Europe. — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, "Donald Trump and the Stress Test of Liberal Democracy," 13 Mar. 2017 Trump’s anger, paranoia, dishonesty, and illiberalism operate at human scale, in 140-character bursts. — Ezra Klein, Vox, "American democracy has faced worse threats than Donald Trump," 10 May 2018 Do not ask when this choice between liberalism and illiberalism will come to America. — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, "A Democracy Disappears," 13 Apr. 2018 Radicals might have insisted that illiberalism and state Zionism were inextricable; that the maintenance of a majority-Jewish nation in a predominantly Muslim region would inevitably require discriminatory policies. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "Natalie Portman and the Crisis of Liberal Zionism," 26 Apr. 2018 Beyond the unprecedented illiberalism of the president’s rhetoric, his approach to governance has been substantively distinctive enough to warrant its own title. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "Trumpism Is Having Its Best Week Ever," 10 May 2018

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