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absolutism

[ab-suh-loo-tiz-uhm] / ˈæb sə luˌtɪz əm /
NOUN
absolute control by government
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And Matt Yglesias is a person who exists in this world, with all its intellectual absolutism and strategic compromise.

From Washington Post

If there’s anything to learn from the Musk era at Twitter, it’s that the free-speech absolutism Mr. Musk claimed to espouse is untenable as a guiding principle.

From Washington Post

And he dismisses pacifism for offering a mushy “hodgepodge of utopian ideas and crude absolutism” to counter the threats posed by the Nazis, including genocide.

From Seattle Times

Increasingly religion has become a kind of cruel absolutism rather than a recognition of human fallibility and God’s grace.

From Washington Post

But groups that embrace Second Amendment absolutism do not hesitate to criticize fellow advocates who stray from that orthodoxy.

From New York Times