How to Use leftism in a Sentence

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  • 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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