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rightward

rightward

1 6.8
Toward more conservative political views and policies
  • adverb
  • /ˈraɪtˌwərd/
: hacia la derecha
  • The beauty of their campaign is that while they keep losing elections, the Dems keep moving ever more rightward to legitimize them.
  • move rightward
  • drift rightward
  • courts rightward

And so we saw an increasing rightward drift on tons of fronts.

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Examples

  • JP II then went to great lengths to stack the Conclave of Cardinals with only conservatives and pull the Church sharply rightward.

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  • The Democrats have been trending rightward since Reagan, AFAIK.

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  • When you were in the early years of your career, you were sort of in the midst of a rightward turn in the nation.

  • There was right before this election the all the news was, oh, there's a rightward shift globally.

    I've Had It

  • And so we saw an increasing rightward drift on tons of fronts.

    The Financial Diet

  • Clinton and the conservative wing of the party claimed they had "heard the people" and formed the DLC to steer the party rightward.

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  • Weinberg is a Scoop Jackson Democrat who has moved rightward over the years.

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  • And, you know, we can say that there's been a really hard rightward swing by the Republican Party, first with the Tea Party, then with MAGA.

  • When the delegates were selected (by caucuses in each congressional district), roughly 40 percent of them were critics of Carter's move rightward.

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  • Recent elections have shown that the public is moving rightward on economic issues.

Synonyms

right
vsrightward
∞ 1.0

Toward the side opposite to left

is specifically about moving toward more conservative political positions

How Conservative

far-right
1 5.3
rightward
1 6.8
center
  • Literature
1 4.9
left
163 1.0

Surface Forms

rightward positive

Morphology

rightward = right (semi-transparent) = right + ward

Formally 'right' + '-ward' is clear, but the political meaning is a metaphorical extension of spatial movement and may require knowledge of 'right' as a political category.

Etymology

Rightward in politics is a clear build from right, the 'right' side in politics meaning 'more conservative', and -ward meaning 'toward', like in forward. So a party or opinion that moves rightward is moving 'toward the right' in its ideas and policies.