Yet the power of reactionaries was too great; Khatami proved
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Nor are reactionaries to be found only on the right.
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He curbed the rapaciousness of his civil servants and clerical reactionaries.
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No wonder reactionaries like Ann Coulter see this as a sellout.
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Like many reactionaries, he saw race in America in apocalyptic terms.
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"I view it as just playfully making reactionaries look ridiculous," Nyberg wrote.
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It's a cycle that's lucrative for both the reactionaries and their targets.
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The real danger comes from reactionaries who want to bring back the 1950s.
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Not that fans need further evidence that the NFL is run by reactionaries.
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Reactionaries believe that such a break has already occurred and has been disastrous.
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Increasingly, the media portray evangelicals as a right-wing political lobby group — reactionaries.
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The site has provided an outlet to violent reactionaries and white supremacists ever since.
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Those who question the vanguard are "reactionaries" who must be wiped out or reeducated.
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The reactionaries on the right are already charged up and will not go quietly.
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Religious terms, the names of national leaders, illegal organizations and reactionaries are also banned.
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Like many English reactionaries — including Mr. Johnson — he speaks in a nostalgic, "old world" register.
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It would seem that reactionaries, while they inhabit our world, are not really of it.
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Reactionaries imagined themselves squeezed between globalist Jewish bankers above and subversive Jewish refugee hordes below.
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But like the radicals and neo-reactionaries they have an energy absent from the ideological mainstream.
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Only those who have preserved memories of the old ways — the reactionaries themselves — see what happened.
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They are not reactionaries in the Tipper Gore mode, trying to whip up a moral panic.
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On the left, intellectual culture has become increasingly insular, creating space for reactionaries on the right.
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Conservative judicial reactionaries have spent nearly four decades in pursuit of a majority to overturn Roe v.
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Backers of continued union with Spain were scorned as reactionaries, or even the inheritors of Franco's legacy.
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A few true reactionaries haunt the political philosophy departments at Catholic universities and publish in paleoconservative journals.
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Reactionaries, on the other hand, want to go backward to a time when rights and freedoms were restricted.
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Deep down, liberals agree, but they love her appointments and don't want to be tarred as privileged reactionaries.
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Conservatives have a respect for a universal human nature; reactionaries tend to value some natures more than others.
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"I like to send rude or annoying replies to dumb right-wing reactionaries that I despise," Rousseau wrote.
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"The reactionaries in Japan could not contain their glee" after the Hanoi meeting broke down, the commentary said.
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And while the ideas of these online reactionaries may be crude, they're no less effective because of it.
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From 1989 onward Western political arguments were conducted within extremely narrow lines, with radicals and reactionaries thoroughly excluded.
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But they are complete reactionaries, very conservative and not nearly as liberal and tolerant as they think they are.
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" He writes, "they have drained a good deal of life from our democracy … become specialists in caution, literal reactionaries.
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Maybe these reactionaries really are a dangerous kind of breed of conservatism, and they should be treated as such.
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He had just published a book titled The Shipwrecked Mind, a short meditation on the rise of political reactionaries.
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These are the kinds of stories that are used by reactionaries in order to build up their historical myth.
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"If I thought we were nothing but reactionaries, I wouldn't be here before you," he told reporters in Helsinki.
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Not exactly cutting-edge stuff, but feminism is equal parts philosophy and praxis, and reactionaries are born every day.
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It is in the nature of reactionaries to react, but very often the right course of action is inaction.
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MBS should share some power with modernising princes, while checking the excesses of religious reactionaries and the sprawling royal family.
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The social effects of novels, films, comic books and pop music were condemned by the grumpy reactionaries of the time.
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Trump's election was only the capstone of an era when reactionaries have seized every level of power in the country.
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King is accessible today because he was a reformer seeking nonviolent change in an America beset by reactionaries and radicals.
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His community overlaps with a movement of Internet-savvy reactionaries who cloak bigotry in ironic memes and pop-culture references.
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In 2018, as in the late '80s, the world spins forward, and reactionaries are unable to turn the clock back.
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Where Burkean conservatives tended to value the institutions they found in the past, reactionaries value the identities they can find there.
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A coalition of MAGA rubes, neo-Nazis, trolls, ethno-nationalists, ex-GamerGaters and other reactionaries will be all the more volatile.
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The earliest writers musing over banned emotions were reactionaries who were afraid people were losing specific freedoms to specific political movements.
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Then as now, "states' rights" was a clear sop to Southern reactionaries who opposed a robust federal role in civil rights.
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But the fans ultimately rejected the reactionaries: in 943, most of the major categories were won by women and minority writers.
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In reality Obama complicates any genealogy of radicals or reactionaries, just as Coates rewrites the narrative of being a public intellectual.
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Today, different "declinist" strains have merged, from Catholic reactionaries to nonreligious thinkers preoccupied by questions of national identity and political corruption.
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We would still have anti-voting reactionaries, but they would have had to work harder to make their ideas a reality.
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"Are they really nothing more than the loudmouth reactionaries I see on the news?" the Rich character says of Tea Party members.
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If this continues, we are heading for a political fight along predictable dividing lines: leftist Democrat vs traditionalist GOP, progressives vs reactionaries.
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Democrats in both ideology and make-up are increasingly the party of female equality and the Republicans the party of gender reactionaries.
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But really, history is often a volley between revolutionaries (who take control in some periods) and reactionaries (who drive events in others).
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Reactionaries, whether angry white Trumpians, European nationalists, radical Islamists or left-wing anti-globalists, are loud, self-confident and on the march.
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It is, essentially, the pontificators against the reactionaries, and it tends to define every political battle, every discourse and every collective pursuit.
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In the attorney's life, you can see the strange ease with which a sybaritic con man fit in with crusading social reactionaries.
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And the reactionaries of our time have discovered that nostalgia can be a powerful political motivator, perhaps even more powerful than hope.
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Mr Ellison would unleash his indignant and ingenious fury on anyone who offended him, relishing every opportunity to rage at reactionaries and Republicans.
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In some ways, conservative activists looked to be making headway over the last year, painting campus liberals as reactionaries and opponents of speech rights.
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In the normal telling of the past, events are driven by revolutionaries, and the few reactionaries who stand in the way get run over.
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It dovetailed well with an interesting graphic essay from Nate Powell on paramilitary aesthetics and their increasing popularity among reactionaries in the United States.
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Admittedly, if you think that the world really is divided between tolerant progressives and wicked reactionaries, you won't find this assessment all that damning.
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Yet he faces a different cultural landscape in Russia, where reactionaries have been in the ascendant in recent years (a phenomenon that "The Student" satirised).
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Reactionaries come in different stripes but share a similar mentality: There was once a golden age, when people knew their place and lived in harmony.
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Do they embrace Mr. Trump, who created the best opportunity in a generation for passing a conservative agenda by wooing bigots, bomb-throwers and reactionaries?
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We can, of course, argue about the causes of the resentment, but there's no question that it's there and that it's fueling the populist reactionaries.
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Today, as the Columbia political theorist Mark Lilla points out in his compelling new book, "The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction," reactionaries are in the saddle.
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Rather, it is conservative reactionaries who call the tune, and they're getting very good at getting the rest of the conservative media universe to sing along.
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An odd alliance between progressives and reactionaries arises as progressive people blame modern architects for the badness of modern cities, just as their reactionary counterparts did.
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The term typically applies to conservatives and reactionaries who are active on the Internet and too anti-establishment to feel at home in the Republican Party.
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It is fighting its own version of a battle — climate progressivism versus nationalist reactionaries — that is, on a larger scale, going to determine the fate of humanity.
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Still, reactionaries such as Yiannopoulos and the alt-right, despite initially remaining on the fringes of conservatism, have made an impact — most recently helping Trump get elected.
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Which means that the race is, to some extent, a proxy vote between Trumpism and its reactionaries (of which Griffin has become the most radicalized to date).
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Editorial Nobody should be surprised when the present House of Representatives, dominated by penurious reactionaries, produces a stingy response to a danger that calls for compassionate largess.
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A tinfoil-hat brigade of reactionaries immediately insisted that the cunning "Democrat Party" had run a "false flag" plot designed to boost its chances on Election Day.
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They worked in reaction to reactionaries, cataloging the fallout from the deregulation of capital, the winnowing of social welfare programs, and state endorsement of racism and homophobia.
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If YouTube had been trying to create an accurate picture of its platform's most visible faces, it would need to include bigots, reactionaries and juvenile shock jocks.
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The ballet world is laden with first-name insider-talk, but some reactionaries are still shocked that their Mr. Balanchine is, on this occasion, referred to as George.
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The next day, on the digital hellscape known as #MetsTwitter, reactionaries called for him to be kicked down the batting order, or to just go ahead and retire.
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Uber has successfully portrayed regulators like PPA that oppose their entry — or insist that they conform to onerous taxi regulations — as reactionaries standing in the way of progress.
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And the backlash shows that that progress has been less linear than we would like, and that with forward movement comes those reactionaries who dig in their heels.
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A statement from Metzger, also shared in the Facebook post from Brewing News, explained that he was attempting to impersonate the sort of "reactionaries" who support President Trump.
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As was done by European artists and writers in the 18th and then 19th centuries, the decline of the Roman Empire has been seized upon largely by reactionaries?
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And yet, as the trailer swipes sideways at the reactionaries, it also hints that something more is going on in the story than it's currently willing to disclose.
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Benedict "is being taken advantage of," said Roberto Rusconi, a church historian, who considered the book an open and direct attack on Francis by "reactionaries" inside the church.
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"By exiling anti-Semites, Birchers, and anti-American reactionaries from its pages, the magazine and its editor determined which conservative arguments were legitimate and which were not," Continetti argued.
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" Mark Lilla, the Columbia historian and scholar of the mentality of European reactionaries, described Camus as "a kind of connective tissue between the far right and the respectable right.
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As he contended with fascism in Europe and reactionaries at home, she often had to mute her own strong liberal views and radical sympathies in deference to his agendas.
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Failing that, Democrats could insist on a decades-long debt limit increase, in the hope that Congresses well into the future won't be populated by so many dangerous reactionaries.
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Still, a lesson of fundamentalist regimes worldwide is that when reactionaries try to enforce their ideas about gender traditionalism, they can be more tyrannical than real tradition ever was.
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" Pyongyang responded to the result with a statement published in state media Monday accusing "Japanese reactionaries" of working to "pave the groundwork for a reinvasion of the Korean peninsula.
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That "stopping political correctness" was, for him, not only synonymous with but contingent upon the continued subjugation of certain minorities, indicates the illiberalism in which anti-PC reactionaries are steeped.
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Blaming neoliberalism, as leftists do, or statist bureaucrats, as reactionaries do, is to seek, despite historical, political, and organizational differences, a one-size-fits-all villain, not an actual analysis.
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It is central to the liberal self-conception that what separates them from reactionaries is a desire to help people, a desire to create a fairer and more just world.
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Cultural reactionaries rely on people accepting their position — in this case, a world where only white men do things — as the apolitical default, making any aberration an example of "forced" tokenism.
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" The Daphne Merkins and Katie Roiphes of this world, Gornick told me, are just the reactionaries that accompany each of these explosive moments: "They don't write from a position of understanding.
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The reactionaries who are attracted to Trump are, as numerous lines of research have demonstrated, more anxious than liberals and thus more prone to value order, stability, structure, and social hierarchy.
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Its intellectual underpinnings are from "reactionaries" who argue that democracy is flawed, that black people may well be genetically inferior to whites, and that the present is worse than the past.
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Staging another referendum and snatching away a democratic victory from the Leave camp would just show a bunch of reactionaries that they can't get what they want from the ballot box.
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He might not always be right, but he always has his reasons, and even baseball's most feel-driven reactionaries like to think that at least a little logic is at work.
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It holds, as Russian reactionaries hold, that deep in the heartland are the pure folk who embody the pure soul of the country — who endure the suffering and make the bread.
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The arc of history too-often results in people who move things forward gradually evolving into the reactionaries holding them back, without any sense of irony that they've become their grandparents.
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The short-lived democracy was hobbled in its early years by arch-conservatives in positions of power who protected and encouraged the violent reactionaries who would eventually take over the country.
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After each episode, you may want to relax a bit before returning to the dystopian future of Gilead, which is run by religious reactionaries who have stripped most women of their rights.
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The alt-right movement — a coalition of white supremacists and reactionaries who believe in rejecting democracy — has provided such visible support for Trump that Hillary Clinton devoted an entire speech to it.
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And it gives credence to one of the arguments made forcefully by Baron Cohen: that social networks have been far more successful at empowering dangerous reactionaries than they have more progressive forces.
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Within the alt-right, a loose-knit movment of online reactionaries, Duke is seen as a kind of hidden-hand figure, doing his part to influence the movement's image from the shadows.
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But, if nothing else, Trump loves proving the media wrong and making the political left look like reactionaries, and a surprise announcement that he plans to stay with the agreement would accomplish both.
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New policy instruments would be needed to build a new liberalism for the twentieth century, some of which have now found their way into the hands of conservatives and reactionaries such as Farage.
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These are the inexplicably furious young reactionaries of the internet, the people who every so often make the news, whenever they're accused of ruining the life of another liberal journalist or feminist campaigner.
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As Mr. Biden seeks the White House four years later, his reminiscences about working with hard-line reactionaries — including segregationists like James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge — have provoked an entirely different response.
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If Google — and the tech world more generally — is sexist, or in the grips of a totalitarian cult of political correctness, or a secret hotbed of alt-right reactionaries, the consequences would be profound.
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A similar back-to-basics movement flourished in the interwar period, with reactionaries in France, Italy, and Germany scorning bourgeois liberalism in favor of rigid gender roles, healthy diets, open air, and calisthenic routines.
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The bigness of those Big Unifying Sports Moments would naturally appeal to the cynical cadre of delusional reactionaries that head up the NFL, because those people see themselves as being in the Bigness Business.
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The dictators came in all shapes and sizes — communists, fascists, radicals and reactionaries, left-wing authoritarians (like Pilsudski), right-wing militarists (like Franco), monarchs, anti-monarchists, even a cleric like Father Tiso in Slovakia.
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Whereas some reactionaries (even gay ones) argue that art or fiction or dance or films by gays were superior when they were indirect, ashamed, coded, Mapplethorpe revealed how rich and original explicitness could be.
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Scruton knows that conservatism is a reaction against the Enlightenment confidence in improving the world through the use of reason, but he is at pains to distinguish the thinkers he admires from mere reactionaries.
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Furie originally created Pepe as a chill frog who spreads love, but internet fascists and assorted reactionaries appropriated the frog as a symbol of white nationalism in the run up to the 2016 election.
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However, the reactionaries ploughed on, impervious to facts, with right-wing media outlets such as the Sun and the Daily Telegraph calling for the return of stop-and-search to restore order on London streets.
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And if you were creating a Gawker for young internet reactionaries, your perfect contributor might look something like Lane Davis: internet-obsessed, prolific, fluent in the culture wars, and with a strong point of view.
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Last month, just before "Saturday Night Live" parodied Catherine Deneuve and Brigitte Bardot as wine-swilling reactionaries, Marlène Schiappa, a Frenchwoman with significantly greater authority on gender issues, made a quick visit to New York.
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The illiberalism of these new radicals is mirrored among the new reactionaries, a group defined by skepticism of democracy and egalitarianism, admiration for more hierarchical orders, and a willingness to overthrow the Western status quo.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who opened her country to more than a million migrants fleeing the Syrian war, has seen her power and popularity slashed and that of Germany's right-wing, anti-immigrant reactionaries grow.
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This would require some doing, as his successor's transition team already showed signs of chaotic infighting and of favoring many of the reactionaries, climate-change deniers, and heroes of the alt-right in their midst.
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Trump has asked mobs of his supporters, many of them white nationalists and armed reactionaries, to flood urban precincts and intimidate minority voters, whom he's accused of participating in a global scheme to steal the election.
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In a lovely symmetry, her name invokes both political types: the Jacobin radicals, who led the French Revolution, and the Jacobite reactionaries, who fought to restore King James II and the Stuarts to the British throne.
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Johnson launched Wesearchr after he was booted from Twitter for soliciting funds to "take out" Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, but it seems the standard doxxing bounties just don't tug at vicious reactionaries' sense of charity.
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Cheap, ubiquitous, viral photography has fed social movements like Black Lives Matter, but cameras are already prompting more problems than we know what to do with — revenge porn, live-streamed terrorism, YouTube reactionaries and other photographic ills.
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Not only that: He also finds himself in the unsettling position of being the designated villain of this anti-globalization backlash, his Judaism and career in finance rendering him a made-to-order phantasm for reactionaries worldwide.
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Some of these attacks come from academic reactionaries, certainly, but the park's social legacy calls for more conscientious treatment than three pages, which is significantly less attention than Snow gives to Walt's extended haggle with television networks.
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He understood that this story, of how peace might actually look, would, by necessity, bother people, especially those in power — just as today, the reactionaries at Israel's Ministry of Education fear the vision portrayed in Dorit Rabinyan's novel.
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Progressives and reactionaries may both be drawn to the Middle Ages out of an affinity for "tradition," says Shirin Khanmohamadi, a professor of literature at San Francisco State University who teaches a course called the Multicultural Middle Ages.
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With Trump and his support from reactionaries, they were worried that we were seeing the mainstreaming of a fringe of the far, far right — and that could have horrible consequences for the Republican Party, America, and the world.
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Both are political reactionaries and ultra-nationalists and, though Putin is far more authoritarian, Trump has made it clear that he would rather be a dictator than the leader of a democracy with constitutional restraints on his authority.
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If you've lost sleep worrying about the growing power of the alt-right — that shadowy coalition that includes white nationalists, anti-feminists, far-right reactionaries and meme-sharing trolls — I may have found a cure for your anxiety.
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As long as their lives were stable, they were content with the status quo, but as soon as the stability started to slip away, they readily embraced populists like Trump or reactionaries in Europe like Marine Le Pen.
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Michelle Goldberg Although I'm a squishy-hearted liberal, I have a soft spot for dyspeptic reactionaries like H. L. Mencken and V. S. Naipaul, men — they're almost always men — who speak to a dark, misanthropic corner of my soul.
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Mired in its own culture war, YouTube has become a haven for reactionaries and the alt-right, and its 2019 ban on white supremacist and conspiracy content may do little to quell the growth of extremism on the platform.
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My favorite work of Tseng's may be his portrait of William F. Buckley Jr., from the 1981 series "Moral Majority" (which also includes portraits of the late revanchist Senator Alfonse D'Amato and Jerry Falwell, undying Tithonus of the reactionaries).
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And according to a recent report, just weeks before the 2018 midterm elections, far-right reactionaries were able to "hijack" search terms in order to manipulate YouTube's algorithms so that queries for popular terms dredge up links to reactionary content.
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Trump's political advisors will likely explain that presidents who are at 40 percent and above do not lose congressional majorities, especially in an age when the very idea of America is being undermined by enemies overseas and reactionaries in America.
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Rosenfeld's thesis—that the postwar enthusiasm for ideologically unified parties yielded some positive good—works better when he turns to the Democratic Party, which really did clean house, cutting loose Southern reactionaries to make itself the party of civil rights.
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For instance, a relatively small group of online reactionaries involved in the so-called "Gamergate" movement were able to convince several of now-defunct Gawker's blue-chip advertisers to suspend business with the site through a targeted campaign in 2014.
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That abstraction allowed voters who may not necessarily subscribe to the more extreme racialized edges of the American conservative movement to rationalize voting for politicians that might, under other circumstances, be unacceptable to anyone other than a small minority of reactionaries.
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Drawing on previously classified documents and on memoirs by individual citizens, this history of China's most infamous social movement shows how a program based on denouncing reactionaries escalated into a witch hunt that took millions of lives and ruined millions more.
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The Shift If you've lost sleep worrying about the growing power of the alt-right — that shadowy coalition that includes white nationalists, anti-feminists, far-right reactionaries and meme-sharing trolls — I may have found a cure for your anxiety.
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Watching a team lose a game is something you learn to do over the course of life as a fan, and it's what makes the howling reactionaries calling into the Swiffer & The Hump Show seem not just childish and weird, but strangely innocent.
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However, this often tempts fans to play towards the unfortunate tendency of framing Japandroids as saviors or avatars of rock music itself; branding their fans as prima facie rockist reactionaries, even though they likely listen to Migos or Frank Ocean like Japandroids do.
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But that traps both parties in an endless cycle of epiphanic hopes and deep disappointments — so the frustration with failed political insiders gives way to a demand for political outsiders, and the failure of those outsiders creates demand for reactionaries and revolutionaries.
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Found in small magazines like Chronicles, Southern Partisan, and The Rockwell-Rothbard Report, the paleocons were a motley group made up of anti-war libertarians (Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell), Catholic reactionaries (Buchanan, Joseph Sobran) and southern nostalgists for white supremacy (Samuel T. Francis, Thomas Fleming).
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The more Peter King, NFL PR guys, and other feverishly pro-NFL types dismiss those of us who are tuning into other sports as knee-jerk week-to-week reactionaries, the more they miss the actual problem, which will cost them in the long run.
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While these examples might feel like mere coincidence to some, the idea that white men would lead the attacks on Greta Thunberg is consistent with a growing body of research linking gender reactionaries to climate-denialism—some of the research coming from Thunberg's own country.
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But that's all the more reason for liberal Christians to set out to prove the conservatives wrong, to show that monasteries and missionaries can come forth from progressive fields, to effectively out-Benedict Option the reactionaries and force us to concede that we misjudged them.
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And that goes for both categories of reactionaries—the Star Wars fan upset that the franchise's heroes now include (::clutches pearls::) women and people of color, and the misogynist, racist, classist, dark side of the populace that's always been present, wielding power in one form or another.
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"I am not a member of any organized party—I am a Democrat" the comedian Will Rogers quipped in 1935—a time when the Democratic Party was amazingly elastic, ranging from racist Southern reactionaries like Martin Dies to left-wing African Americans like Adam Clayton Powell.
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All kinds of phenomena, starting as far back as the Iraq War and the crisis of the euro but accelerating in the age of populism, have made more sense in the light of analysis by reactionaries and radicals than as portrayed in the organs of establishment opinion.
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Or take the time last fall when New York Times Opinion staff writer Bari Weiss steamrolled over Native voices to sound the alarm about the P.C. reactionaries daring to oppose a high school mural in San Francisco that depicted the massacre and genocide of Native peoples.
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And all three post-liberal tendencies are in synch with aspects of the populisms roiling the West's politics: the radicals with Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn and Podemos and Syriza, the neo-reactionaries with Trump and Brexit and Le Pen, the Catholic integralists with Eastern Europe's rightward turn.
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And just as with the Republicans' previous kamikaze missions—the government shutdown, the campaign to defund Planned Parenthood—this instance of pandering to reactionaries will also fail spectacularly, when Trump loses the general election in a landslide, and Hillary Clinton fills the open Supreme Court seat with whomever she wants.
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The episode, almost slapstick in its clumsiness, evoked the persistent, if mostly marginal, murmurings of some reactionaries that Benedict remains the true Pope, having been manipulated into resigning by a corrupt—and, in the most conspiratorial accounts, largely gay—Vatican bureaucracy that was fed up with his fealty to doctrine.
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Prendergast also offered a harsh assessment of the trend: "If you have ever wondered why young people are often so childish in their politics, why they want to divide the world between tolerant progressives and wicked reactionaries, it helps to understand" that they think they're living in a Potter novel.
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Feels Good Man does linger on the anguished online reactionaries who took Pepe from fratty to fascist, but mostly, it doodles an intimate, uncomfortable portrait of a naive cartoonist trying to drag a JPEG back from the maw of 4chan's ugliest corners—simply because it's right and because it's his.
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The thought that I keep coming back to this week is that representation matters so, so much—especially in a scene like this, where racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of bigotry remain rampant, and any scrap of progress is still looked at askance by gatekeepers or shouted down by reactionaries.
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Besieged, as they see it, both by developing gender equality—Hultman pointed specifically to the shock some men felt at the #MeToo movement—and now climate activism's challenge to their way of life, male reactionaries motivated by right-wing nationalism, anti-feminism, and climate denialism increasingly overlap, the three reactions feeding off of one another.
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Despite reactionaries' panicked baying that the moves the genre's made towards social progress is in fact a plot to make metal "less dangerous," the fact of the matter is that, to most people, heavy metal and its fans are still seen as taboo, scary, weird—and, as was unfortunately made apparent last week with the Gray brothers—dangerous.
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The reason Reconstruction failed, and ended with the reimposition of an apartheid system, had to do with an exasperating coalition of self-styled Northern "reformers" and the openly revanchist, anti-Grant Southerners—misguided progressives making common cause with true reactionaries against a well-meaning middle—and also with a general battle fatigue that afflicted the nation.
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I learned that the French progenitors of the Statue of Liberty wanted it to symbolize a liberal, humanitarian politics, steering between right-wing reactionaries and the left-wing radicals of the Paris Commune, and that many of its American funders were small donors out to shame decadent Gilded Age robber barons who wouldn't contribute to a civic monument.
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Listening to Thou lacerate the filthy legacy of European imperialism over big dirty sludge riffs brings me so much peace; they and the others like them swimming against a tide of boneheaded reactionaries and apolitical-'cause-it's-easier, money-grubbing corporate indie labels are the ones truly keeping metal's rebellious, working class, anti-establishment ethos alive.
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The media, tech platforms, the niche internet communities these reactionaries came from (places with marginally obscure names like 20183chan, 8chan, and Voat, for instance), the corporations they easily manipulated, and the general public, who seemed to take it in as nebulous online noise; no one properly identified Gamergate as a major turning point for the internet.
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But there were clues that four years after the signing of the Paris agreement, a time when climate reactionaries like Donald Trump and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro are pushing the world ever closer to an irreversible tipping point while global emissions inch inexorably upward, the UN leadership is becoming more open to the idea of previously unthinkable economic change.
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Certain aspects of this visual drama could, I imagine, appeal to the fantasist tastes of blood-and-soil reactionaries and far-right neo-royalists — those with a fervent belief in the mystical and glorious destiny of France, who are dedicated to the destruction of secularism and liberalism and yearn to re-establish an atavistic hierarchy constructed along ultra-traditionalist Catholic lines.
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"The Ones Who Stay and Fight," which she describes as "pastiche of and reaction to [Ursula] Le Guin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,'" takes an already preachy story as its springboard — let no one pretend that the genre isn't soapbox-prone — to argue with both the past master and the rabble of reactionaries who have harried efforts to diversify science fiction.
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"I think that makes Atticus Finch all the more interesting and relevant to our own day, because we can see how Harper Lee was writing in this period of militant segregationist politics in the late 1950s, and trying to make sense of her father's heritage, her father's political conservatism, at a time when the reactionaries were in the driver's seat in Southern politics," Crespino says.
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What wasn't shared was any serious plan to neutralize the vast political weight of the fossil fuel industry; hold oil, gas and coal executives accountable for creating a climate science denial movement that continues to delay progress; deal with climate reactionaries like Donald Trump and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro; or question the capitalist growth machine that helped get us into this clusterfuck in the first place.
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For Brexit foes preoccupied with the fact that forces of reaction and xenophobia carried the day in the U.K., New York Times columnist Ross Douthat suggested their own unwillingness to accommodate the reactionaries and xenophobes may explain their defeat: Even if you suppose … that mass immigration would be an unalloyed good in a world where Western populations could manage to overcome their (or what you think of as their) bigotry and nativism and racism, in the world that actually exists politicians have to account for those forces and not simply assume that the right Facebook rules and elite-level political conspiracies can perpetually keep a lid on populism.
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A few of its most important passages: Gamergate is […] a relatively small and very loud group of video game enthusiasts who claim that their goal is to audit ethics in the gaming-industrial complex and who are instead defined by the campaigns of criminal harassment that some of them have carried out against several women […] What's made it effective, though, is that it's exploited the same basic loophole in the system that generations of social reactionaries have: the press's genuine and deep-seated belief that you gotta hear both sides … that anyone more respectable than, say, an avowed neo-Nazi is operating in something like good faith It is now clear to us all that that last statement is no longer correct … in that it is far too optimistic.
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