Meanings
- uncountablegovernmentA move toward politics like those of Jeremy Corbyn of Britain's Labour Party, associated with a traditional socialist approach but marred by accusations of anti-Semitism.
The Democrats may be far from that stage, but they stand at a crossroads if they do not act to end the onward march of American Corbynization.
2019 August 15, Robert Philpot, “Is Corbynization the Democratic Party’s Future?”, in Commentary2 more examples
The Corbynization of the Democratic Party also turns on militant multiculturalism. This agenda is shaped, as in Britain, by a disjointed concert of grievance groups, ranging from gender activists to those who claim to represent Latinos, African Americans, Asians, Muslims and others, whose alienation has been exacerbated by Trump’s triumph.
2016 November 27, Joel Kotkin, “The Corbynization of the Democratic Party”, in Orange County Register“It only takes a few demagogues to pump antisemitic poison into the bloodstream of a political party. And so I see it as my mission to resist the Jeremy Corbynization of progressive politics in the United States.”
2021 January 15, Melissa Weiss, Sam Zieve Cohen, quoting Ritchie Torres, “Ritchie Torres vows to prevent the ‘Corbynization’ of progressive politics”, in Jewish Insider
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