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a political belief stressing progress, the essential goodness of humankind, and individual freedom
liberalism had always claimed to stand for the greatest social good
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Cracks appeared in the sixties, Dunkelman thinks, as liberalism started to reflect the baby boomers’ distrust of the establishment.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Trump might also set back democratic values by coercing Ukraine into a lousy peace or supporting Hungarian President Viktor Orban and other rulers who seek to dismantle European liberalism.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Trump’s vision stems from the right-wing anticommunist movements of the 1950s, which pitted the West against its enemies, drew on religious motifs, and harbored a suspicion of American liberalism as too soft, too postnational, and too secular to protect the country.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Continue reading … 'CENSORED OURSELVES' – Former Canadian party head says White workers rejected liberalism after being 'betrayed' by its policies.
—Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Trump might also set back democratic values by coercing Ukraine into a lousy peace or supporting Hungarian President Viktor Orban and other rulers who seek to dismantle European liberalism.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Trump’s vision stems from the right-wing anticommunist movements of the 1950s, which pitted the West against its enemies, drew on religious motifs, and harbored a suspicion of American liberalism as too soft, too postnational, and too secular to protect the country.
—Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Continue reading … 'CENSORED OURSELVES' – Former Canadian party head says White workers rejected liberalism after being 'betrayed' by its policies.
—Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for liberalism
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“Liberalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/liberalism. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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