as in liberalism
a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
the candidate's opponents are working overtime to paint him as a champion of extreme leftism
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Recent Examples of leftism
In the 21st century, leftism itself is the regressive set-up.
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Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
What would happen if Jenny encountered someone who came at their leftism from genuine Judaism?
—Cat Zhang, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
So maybe — just maybe — conscientious leftists in the Americas are coming to the gut-wrenching realization this week that unconscionable leftists like Maduro are clubbing leftism’s image to a bloody pulp and kicking it into a ditch to die.
—Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
And Republicans, who have long criticized universities as fortresses of liberalism and leftism, now have allies among the many congressional Democrats who remain supportive of Israel, as well as many of the universities’ own donors, administrators and trustees.
—Charles Homans Gabra Zackman Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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Tim Padgett, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2024
What would happen if Jenny encountered someone who came at their leftism from genuine Judaism?
—Cat Zhang, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024
So maybe — just maybe — conscientious leftists in the Americas are coming to the gut-wrenching realization this week that unconscionable leftists like Maduro are clubbing leftism’s image to a bloody pulp and kicking it into a ditch to die.
—Tim Padgett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
And Republicans, who have long criticized universities as fortresses of liberalism and leftism, now have allies among the many congressional Democrats who remain supportive of Israel, as well as many of the universities’ own donors, administrators and trustees.
—Charles Homans Gabra Zackman Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for leftism
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New York’s benevolent liberalism of the Rockefeller years comes off as top-down benevolence, sociological benevolence, experience-free benevolence.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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In the mid-twentieth century, however, liberalism began to predominate to such an extent that republicanism, and its concern with the civic consequences of economic choices, largely faded from view.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Leftism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leftism. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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