Leftist Definition & Meaning

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the candidate's opponents are working overtime to paint him as a champion of extreme leftism

Recent Examples on the Web Unusually, Sasha mixed the unionist/progressive leftism common to most folk-punk Woody Guthrie fetishists with a radical militancy. — Franz Nicolay, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2022 Probably few of the actual rioters consciously associated their conduct with the leftism of another time. — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022 Respecting democracy and the Constitution even slightly is now devious leftism in the Republican mind. — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 29 June 2021 And yet conservative media are not wrong to lambast the Ivy League as a bastion of leftism. — Aron Ravin, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021 The fellowship is part of a broader trend among Jews in progressive spaces who have sought to align aspects of their identity — like political leftism and queerness — with their Judaism. — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021 Others expressed optimism that Grimes’ feigned interest in leftism could help spread the word to her fans. — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021 Becca Rothfeld, writing in The Point, also saw the leftism as fashionable posturing and seemed sorry that Rooney hadn’t more explicitly punctured it. — Caleb Crain, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021 Castillo's politics mingle a nationalist, agrarian leftism with socially conservative impulses. — Franklin BriceÑo And Regina Garcia Cano, Star Tribune, 18 Apr. 2021 See More

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