as in conservativeness
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the region's entrenched reactionaryism made it one of the major battlegrounds for the civil rights movement in the 1960s
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conservatism
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McCarthyite revivalism has flitted around the edges of American conservatism since the senator fell from grace during his conspiratorial anti-Communist campaign in the 1950s.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
6 Mar. 2026 -
Bring back real conservatism like limited government, fiscal responsibility, rule of law and constitutional originalism, and judicial independence.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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