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  • They were on the front lines of the Cold War in Europe, though Julia could not help feeling that the chill in the air had its origin in the “rampant right wingery” that had seized their own country in recent years.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • “Real conservatism,” in this narrative, means a particular strain of right-wingery: a conservatism of supply-side economics and stress positions, uninterested in social policy and dismissive of libertarian qualms about the national-security state.

    Running Dick Cheney 2009

  • The autobiography of the activist daughter of America's richest man, and how she moved from the rabid right-wingery of her privileged background to using her unearned wealth for philanthropy, particularly supporting women in public policy, which brought her to a four-year spell as US ambassador to Austria.

    Gibbon Chapter XXII redfiona99 2010

  • One of my biggest complaints about the Post (aside from its editorial page, which has made a gradual transition from insipid centrism to bellicose right-wingery) is its lousy Metro section.

    Matthew Yglesias » Inside the Beltway 2010

  • They were on the front lines of the Cold War in Europe, though Julia could not help feeling that the chill in the air had its origin in the “rampant right wingery” that had seized their own country in recent years.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Hopi, has been at the conference and is clearly still drunk on left wingery as Labour reverts to its tax and spend instincts.

    Labour`s Leap Left Newmania 2008

  • I have noticed recently that the prevailing left wingery of the British Socialist Broadcasting Company does non stop at the levy, it floods straight over into the independent sector.

    Mrs. Draper Serves a Mugging For Breakfast Newmania 2007

  • Consider the loathsome sense of self importance of Bragg and his preening pseudo rebels and the development of financial opportunities driven by profile raising left wingery continues.

    Archive 2007-04-22 Newmania 2007

  • Well partly it is because Gordon has such a long record of left wingery that they trust him to say whatever it takes to get elected and then change direction sharpish.

    Life Goes on Under Emperor Brown Newmania 2007

  • We can see the same effort to link racial hatred to strains of actual right-wingery in the DHS report:

    The Left Falls In Love With Profiling - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState 2009

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