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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And yet, stranger things have already happened during Trump's tenure, as the GOP's populist streak overtakes traditional free-market conservatism.—
Caitlin Owens,
Axios,
27 May 2025 -
But there are philosophical consequences, too — namely, the death of conservatism by a thousand cuts.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
22 May 2025
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“Reactionaryism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reactionaryism. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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