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This time around, some of the most influential figures in Trump’s court have commitments to the anti-liberal counterrevolution: Vice President J. D. Vance, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., and Tucker Carlson, to name a few.
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
These choices take command of the struggle against any possible counterrevolution.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
The Thatcher-Reagan neoliberal counterrevolution combined with reactionary populist anti-intellectualism to seemingly seal the ivory tower’s fate—and to attack universities as bastions of campus revolt and as alternative centers of civil society.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
The phenomenal success of this counterrevolution was due to a simple insight.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2025
These choices take command of the struggle against any possible counterrevolution.
—Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
The Thatcher-Reagan neoliberal counterrevolution combined with reactionary populist anti-intellectualism to seemingly seal the ivory tower’s fate—and to attack universities as bastions of campus revolt and as alternative centers of civil society.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
The phenomenal success of this counterrevolution was due to a simple insight.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterrevolution
counterinsurgency
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Over the past few decades, a counterinsurgency has taken root in America, pushing back against factory farms and overprocessed food: a recognition that the journey from farm to table is usually industrialized and impersonal.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
28 June 2025
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With Iranian and Russian counterinsurgency efforts thrown into disarray by the change of power in Damascus, the U.S. has stepped up strikes against ISIS and Al-Qaeda in Syria over the past three months.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Counterrevolution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterrevolution. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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