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There is no more a judicial philosophy known as “legal progressivism” than there is one called “legal regressivism.”
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It's a libertarian sort of regressivism, to be sure, hence the aforementioned drift to the left on social issues, and perhaps even a new isolationist cast on foreign-policy questions, rejecting the worst excesses of imperialist predation.
My Country, Misery 2009
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These antics only prove how deeply sunk into it regressivism now is.
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The presidential election of 2008 was less a victory for progressives than it was a defeat for regressivism.
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Sorry, but there's no credibility on concerns about the media here .. if you promote a behavior, you are rationalizing regressivism.
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It even has one member in that bastion of regressivism, the United States Senate.
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When you consider the broad historical landscape, what you call of progressivism should actually be called regressivism.
Public Financing of Political Campaigns, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Hillary Clinton runs Bush like Osama Bin Laden Scare Ad yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Hillary Clinton runs Bush like Osama Bin Laden Scare Ad'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Fear mongering, cynical appeals and regressivism to the Republicans, or at least I thought we did until Hillary came along.'
Hillary Clinton runs Bush like Osama Bin Laden Scare Ad 2008
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We leave Fear mongering, cynical appeals and regressivism to the Republicans, or at least I thought we did until Hillary came along.
Hillary Clinton runs Bush like Osama Bin Laden Scare Ad 2008
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And not one favoring progressivism so much as rejecting regressivism.
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