rightward
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- adverb
- /ˈraɪtˌwərd/
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- 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.
- And so we saw an increasing rightward drift on tons of fronts.
- There was right before this election the all the news was, oh, there's a rightward shift globally.
- I think we're seeing culturally and socially in the consciousness A rightward shift.
Examples
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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.
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There was right before this election the all the news was, oh, there's a rightward shift globally.
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And so we saw an increasing rightward drift on tons of fronts.
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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.
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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
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Toward the side opposite to left
How Conservative
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.