How to Use leftism in a Sentence

leftism

noun

• All these ideas would have seemed like fringy leftism to mainstream Democrats just four years ago.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• But his policies are a tougher sell even in this bastion of granola leftism.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
• Now, that last bulwark against full leftism has been removed, and the consequences are in full view.
  — The Editors, National Review, 31 May 2023
• And yet conservative media are not wrong to lambast the Ivy League as a bastion of leftism.
  — Aron Ravin, National Review, 3 Oct. 2021
• Others expressed optimism that Grimes’ feigned interest in leftism could help spread the word to her fans.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• But the campaign has to walk a fine line, trying to draw Sanders supporters while bashing him for infecting Biden with leftism.
  — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 16 Apr. 2020
• Meanwhile, California continues to slip into the abyss of leftism, taking all of us along for the ride.
  — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2017
• But there are signs that the groundswell of hard-leftism is having an effect on more mainstream, national candidates.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018
• In his second memoir, 2000’s Blood of the Liberals, Packer told the story of that missed connection with a more radical leftism.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• Intolerant and bossy leftism has migrated from campus out to the broader world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 June 2022
• The rioters who burned Kenosha weren’t of any one ethnicity; they were united by their radical leftism.
  — Ron Johnson, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2021
• The good news for entertainment executives is that the technology appears advanced enough to express the same trendy leftism that the writers do, but at a fraction of the cost.
  — wsj.com, 10 May 2023
• Thus, claiming free speech as an absolute value, and their leftism as a badge of pride, Charlie Hebdo can mock the victims of a natural disaster.
  — Panjak Mishra, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
• But today’s reporters are emerging from cocoons where leftism rules every word of every section.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• While many moderate Democrats blanch at the full-throated leftism of Mr. Sanders’s policies, few in the party actually dislike the senator himself.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
• But the contest was close, and Portland is still divided between different strains of liberalism and leftism.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
• Labour has dominated Wales for a century, underpinned by seats like the Rhondda Valley, a bastion of working-class leftism.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2019
• The fellowship is part of a broader trend among Jews in progressive spaces who have sought to align aspects of their identity — like political leftism and queerness — with their Judaism.
  — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
• Musk’s logic—that wayward leftism has given a lifelong moderate liberal no choice but to support right-wing causes—is a common trope among far-right activists.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2022
• Becca Rothfeld, writing in The Point, also saw the leftism as fashionable posturing and seemed sorry that Rooney hadn’t more explicitly punctured it.
  — Caleb Crain, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2021
• The open question is whether this form of identity-building can help Mr. Corbyn overcome in voters’ minds his strident cultural leftism and its corollaries like anti-Semitism.
  — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• The new university would just try to be the best in the nation—offering a substantial curriculum untainted by mandatory leftism.
  — John Leo, WSJ, 18 July 2018
• This place built and maintained by Bill Buckley — its mandate to defend and expand conservatism, to hound and excoriate leftism, entrusted by Bill to us — remains vital.
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 8 Oct. 2019
• The horrors of the Soviet empire tainted other forms of leftism, including social democratic ideals, which in fact had been anti-communist.
  — Ian Buruma, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016
• Unusually, Sasha mixed the unionist/progressive leftism common to most folk-punk Woody Guthrie fetishists with a radical militancy.
  — Franz Nicolay, SPIN, 8 Mar. 2022
• As the historian Alex von Tunzelmann explained in an illuminating Twitter thread this week, the two caricatures of Jewishness and leftism are bound up, one with the other.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• The book is an expression of the old liberalism, supplanted by leftism and other flavors of illiberalism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Class reductive leftism is a figment of the political imagination roused by those who have made their peace with neoliberalism.
  — Adolph Reed Jr., The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
• His ordination as a Catholic priest in 1989 followed his conversion from the leftism that marked his early career as a Pentecostal minister and political activist.
  — Mene Ukueberuwa, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• This book is an expression of the old liberalism, supplanted by leftism and other flavors of illiberalism.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 31 Aug. 2020

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