as in conservativeness
attitudes or opinions tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
the state's well-known conservatism means that progressive legislation always has an uphill battle
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While Democratic support for the Social Security Fairness Act is to be expected, given public employee unions’ strength in the party, for Republicans to support this legislation would betray principles of both fairness and fiscal conservatism.
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Andrew Biggs, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the end of limited-government conservatism, but the president-elect has also entrusted Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a nongovernmental advisory group on slashing bureaucracy.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
In an episode that discussed Buckley, founder of the National Review and widely considered the godfather of modern conservatism, the hosts examined extremist and racist elements in the conservative movement half a century ago that persist today.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
He was elected to Surprise City Council in 2020 and reelected in 2022 with a platform focused on fiscal conservatism and supporting law enforcement.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Andrew Biggs, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
There has been a lot of hand-wringing about the end of limited-government conservatism, but the president-elect has also entrusted Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a nongovernmental advisory group on slashing bureaucracy.
—Dominic Pino, National Review, 19 Dec. 2024
In an episode that discussed Buckley, founder of the National Review and widely considered the godfather of modern conservatism, the hosts examined extremist and racist elements in the conservative movement half a century ago that persist today.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
He was elected to Surprise City Council in 2020 and reelected in 2022 with a platform focused on fiscal conservatism and supporting law enforcement.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Conservatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conservatism. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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