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Lopez Aliaga, a Christian nationalist widely known as "Porky" over his self-professed resemblance to rotund cartoon character Porky Pig, campaigned as a hardliner on crime and migration.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. headline was “Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a staunch hardliner who mastered the art of playing his enemies off each other.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

But then, Sorrentino conceived Pius as a conservative hardliner who would have favored brute force anyway.

From Salon • May 10, 2025

Mike Lawler, 37, is a leading counter-weight to the all-or-nothing hardliner stands.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023

The hardliner, naturally, was Teller, who reminded his Livermore colleagues on the panel that a test ban struck at the heart of the lab’s very purpose.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik