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 The others are spread over a spectrum of illiberalism and awfulness: Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, and Iran at the deep end of the authoritarianism pool, with Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Brazil leaning a little or a lot more our way. — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 May 2021 People can overplay — exaggerate — illiberalism and intolerance on our campuses. — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021 If either of those things were happening, that would certainly be a big story, bolstering the narrative being pushed by those obsessed with illiberalism on the left. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Mar. 2021 If anything, the GOP has drifted even further toward extremism and illiberalism since the riot. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2021 In one version of the future, the assault on the Capitol marks the point at which the forces of illiberalism, mob violence and disinformation, much of it stoked and financed by the Russian government, reached critical mass in the West. — Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021 Collectively, their actions are engendering malodorous spirit of illiberalism in the public that will not be easily exorcised. — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 20 Nov. 2020 But more seriously, Mounk doesn’t describe the illiberalism on the left with any rigor. — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 Oct. 2020 The move on the illiberalism scale pushed the GOP further away from its traditional European equivalents and towards more autocratic groupings. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 26 Oct. 2020

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