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liberalism

noun as in left-wing

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Rather, the dalliance between left and right is taking place at the margins where a mutual disgust for liberalism fuels the romance.

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Unlike Marxism or reform liberalism, it has no systematic ideological program; rather, it is a set of dispositions and attitudes.

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In this manner, Protestantism begat modern liberalism and individualism.

Two weeks before Clinton won the presidency, Time magazine reported that his “economic vision” was “perhaps best described as a call for a We decade; not the old I-am-my-brother’s-keeper brand of traditional Democratic liberalism.”

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Exploiting the country’s history of racism to maintain power and influence has become liberalism’s modus operandi.

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