Definitions

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  • adjective politics politically in favor of preserving traditional social orders and heirarchies, and/or government non-interference in economic affairs

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  • adjective believing in or supporting tenets of the political right

Etymologies

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From the seating arrangement in the French parliament after the French Revolution.

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Examples

  • But when Brooks or Charles Murray or Robert Rector deploy their behavioral explanations for poverty it's done because it's a great justification for the long-term right-wing project of tearing apart what's left of the social safety net.

    Joseph A. Palermo: David Brooks's Anti-Poverty Program: "Bourgeois Paternalism" Joseph A. Palermo 2012

  • TSC has been called a right-wing front group funded by the pharmaceutical industry and developed through the direct mail business of its founder, Richard Viguerie.

    Broke Glenn Beck 2010

  • Norwegian police said Saturday that the death toll from Friday's attacks has risen to 91 and confirmed that they have arrested a suspect whom they described as a right-wing Christian fundamentalist.

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • Norwegian police said Saturday that the death toll from Friday's attacks has risen to 91 and confirmed that they have arrested a suspect whom they described as a right-wing Christian fundamentalist.

    News - latimes.com 2011

  • Newt Gingrich, in an unguarded moment on Meet the Press, called the idea right-wing social engineering, no better than left wing social engineering.

    Will Durst: Corroded Clockwork Will Durst 2011

  • Newt Gingrich, in an unguarded moment on Meet the Press, called the idea right-wing social engineering, no better than left wing social engineering.

    Will Durst: Corroded Clockwork Will Durst 2011

  • The bias of major media toward the presumptively authentic expression right-wing populism, in comparison with its general disdain for left-wing protest movements, certainly influenced the initial disparate levels of coverage.

    Jonathan Weiler: The Media and the Five Stages of Grief Over Occupy Wall Street Jonathan Weiler 2011

  • Newt Gingrich, in an unguarded moment on Meet the Press, called the idea right-wing social engineering, no better than left wing social engineering.

    Will Durst: Corroded Clockwork Will Durst 2011

  • The bias of major media toward the presumptively authentic expression right-wing populism, in comparison with its general disdain for left-wing protest movements, certainly influenced the initial disparate levels of coverage.

    Jonathan Weiler: The Media and the Five Stages of Grief Over Occupy Wall Street Jonathan Weiler 2011

  • The bias of major media toward the presumptively authentic expression right-wing populism, in comparison with its general disdain for left-wing protest movements, certainly influenced the initial disparate levels of coverage.

    Jonathan Weiler: The Media and the Five Stages of Grief Over Occupy Wall Street Jonathan Weiler 2011

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