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Recent Examples of jackbooted
Karol let those lines here serve as her brief indictment of the present, jackbooted environment around immigration and repression in the United States.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
Cooper was obsessed with the New World Order and the actions of jackbooted government enforcers against the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
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Andrew Stuttaford,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2018
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Trump’s America and his jackbooted thugs.
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Marwa Eltagouri,
Washington Post,
28 May 2018
These are the words and actions similar to low-level criminals in the mob or jackbooted followers of fascist leaders in 1930s Europe, not the president of the United States in 2018.
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David Zurawik,
baltimoresun.com,
26 Mar. 2018
But what makes director Jeremy Wechsler’s production engaging throughout is the way the cast commits to these characters without turning them into caricatures of either obsessive-nerd culture or jackbooted thugs.
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Kerry Reid,
chicagotribune.com,
31 Jan. 2018
Was Rizzo a jackbooted tyrant who went out of his way to punish blacks and gays?
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David Gambacorta,
Philly.com,
22 Aug. 2017
For some, the racist taunts of the past few days recalled a time when jackbooted members of the far-right National Front taunted immigrants on the streets of Britain in the 1980s, during the painful deindustrialization of the Thatcher era.
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Dan Bilefsky,
New York Times,
27 June 2016
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
Cooper was obsessed with the New World Order and the actions of jackbooted government enforcers against the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, and white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
—
Andrew Stuttaford,
WSJ,
19 Sep. 2018
Likethumb_up Replyreply Linklink Copy Reportflag eraley 22 minutes ago
Trump’s America and his jackbooted thugs.
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Marwa Eltagouri,
Washington Post,
28 May 2018
These are the words and actions similar to low-level criminals in the mob or jackbooted followers of fascist leaders in 1930s Europe, not the president of the United States in 2018.
—
David Zurawik,
baltimoresun.com,
26 Mar. 2018
But what makes director Jeremy Wechsler’s production engaging throughout is the way the cast commits to these characters without turning them into caricatures of either obsessive-nerd culture or jackbooted thugs.
—
Kerry Reid,
chicagotribune.com,
31 Jan. 2018
Was Rizzo a jackbooted tyrant who went out of his way to punish blacks and gays?
—
David Gambacorta,
Philly.com,
22 Aug. 2017
For some, the racist taunts of the past few days recalled a time when jackbooted members of the far-right National Front taunted immigrants on the streets of Britain in the 1980s, during the painful deindustrialization of the Thatcher era.
—
Dan Bilefsky,
New York Times,
27 June 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jackbooted
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Her character, June — called Offred to reflect her subservient role — was our entry point into the totalitarian world of Gilead, a patriarchal society in which handmaids are forced to bear the children of the elite.
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Rather than dealing with the dynamics driving away wealth, Xi Jinping’s totalitarian regime is imposing stringent new controls on buying stocks, real estate and insurance policies overseas.
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Dealing with extreme heat in India, where oppressive temperatures have become a matter of routine in recent years, revealed another disconnect.
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The Shah was so corrupt and oppressive that the 1979 revolution was almost inevitable.
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Satrapi shows us that under authoritarian rule, exile is experienced not only in leaving home, but in the slow erosion of the self from within.
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Building the capacity of governments, especially authoritarian ones, to manage migration and contain refugees is not an inherent global good.
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This dooms the kingdom to the tyrannical rule of the villainous Priscilla (Nikki Glaser), who swoops in and snatches the throne.
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The bony villain is a warlock who stole the throne of Eternia from King Randor and now rules it with a tyrannical fist.
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The pretence of an absolute, irresistible, despotic power, existing in every government somewhere, is incompatible with the first principle of natural right.
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The Academy rules work for countries with democratic governments but not for countries with despotic regimes.
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In Russia, czarist monuments were replaced by statues of Communist leaders, which in turn were torn down — statues of Stalin also fell in Hungary, Georgia and Albania.
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Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
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Indeed, the King would later establish the Instrument of Foundation of the Royal Academy as a more autocratic counterpart.
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But there simply aren’t that many people who want an autocratic America.
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These tyrannous tabbies don’t understand that canning is not exclusively for wet food.
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Indeed, Daniel Roher’s pulse-pumping documentary about the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has all the ingredients: a mysterious case of near-fatal poisoning, a web of for-hire hoodlums, Vladimir Putin as the tyrannous leader behind it all.
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“Jackbooted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jackbooted. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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