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regressive

adjective as in mossbacked

adjective as in recessive

adjective as in retrogressive

adjective as in reversed

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A clear example of this regressive vision is the administration’s push to rewrite the 14th Amendment in their efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship and undermine equal protection under the law.

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Comics have long been on the front lines of democracy, the canary in the cat’s mouth, Looney Tunes style, when it comes to free speech being swallowed by regressive politics.

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Meanwhile, popular and scholarly treatments of white Southerners as overwhelmingly conservative and racially regressive abound.

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In the short term, the Budget Lab notes, tariffs are regressive — they strike disproportionately at lower-income people.

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While framed as a “baby bonus” to build wealth, the program’s structure is deeply flawed and regressive.

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