delegitimatize

The only genuinely constructive course of action is to delegitimatize political authority.

Outrage in India over Detention of Popular Actor at US Airport « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

Over to Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai fending off accusations of election fraud and warning the West not to delegitimatize his victory in last month's vote.

CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2009 2009

He was trying to link it with Nazi Germany, the better to delegitimatize it.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

So “The Weasel” plan is to discredit, dismiss, delegitimatize or swiftboat with lies this new-found source of Dem energy and “spine-iness” that is the blogosphere.

Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: The Shocking Shocking SHOCKING Truth!! 2006

Because we have enlisted countries around the world, saying that terrorism is terrorism is terrorism -- in other words, you can't fight Al Qaida and hug Hezbollah or hug Hamas -- that we've actually started to delegitimatize terrorism in a way that it was not before.

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2004 2004

They've been trying very hard to create an alternative leadership to delegitimatize President Arafat.

CNN Transcript May 12, 2002 2002

CARLSON: You know it's funny, the moment I call him the Reverend Jackson -- we're going to delegitimatize him?

CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room - December 11, 2000 2000

We will delegitimatize him, the person after he becomes president will work to delegitimatize him, I think that falls under the category, Bill, and you described it on this show a couple weeks ago, as un-American.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Spin Room - December 11, 2000 2000

GREENFIELD: But is that alone enough, do you think, in this day and age to, quote, delegitimatize a president.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: The Florida Vote: A CNN Town Meeting - November 10, 2000 2000

If they were bound to hold him down and delegitimatize him and keep him a pariah and a revolter against order, he would show them what he, alone, could do in his own behalf.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912