antiliberal

[an-tee-lib-er-uhl, an-tahy-, -lib-ruhl]

adjective

1. opposed to political, social, or theological liberalism.

noun

1. a person who is opposed to political, social, or theological liberalism.

Example Sentences

That’s when antiliberal passions that had been stirring for some time on the right and left first began to win popular support in America and elsewhere, driving Bernie Sanders’s potent primary challenge to Hillary Clinton, preparing the outcome of the Brexit referendum in Britain and making possible the victorious presidential campaign of Donald Trump.

From New York Times

What Bannon calls the nationalist-populist movement — there are other, more precise names for it — has scored victories in Hungary, Poland, the Philippines and Brazil, and his current project is to knit together like-minded, far-flung rightists in an antiliberal, anti-immigrant counterglobalism.

From New York Times

Benda couldn’t countenance the possibility that leaders may manipulate antiliberal sentiments without creating them, and neither, it seems, can Emmanuel Macron.

From Wall Street Journal

In a swipe at popular history, Mr. Wood says the “Hamilton” musical offers a “distorted” picture of a man who was really an antiliberal “Napoleonic figure”: “Things might have gotten to a point where Hamilton actually sends an army into Virginia,” the Republican stronghold.

From Wall Street Journal

The ability of the Republicans to bring together business interests with antiliberal populism is an impressive bit of ideological sleight of hand.

From Time