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Many inside the movement said it should be less confrontational and disruptive but a hard core of activists argued it would be more effective to double down on direct action.

Back in the old days, shoppers would find coupons in their Sunday newspaper, and hard core couponers would buy several papers to maximize value.

In new research, we argue that there is an identifiable hard core of extremely loyal Trump supporters that comprise his personality cult.

It needed to be "absolutely hard core" about cost reduction, he wrote in a memo first reported by The Information.

Trump gets a pass from the hard core supporters if women are enslaved if the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.