absolutist
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Now Musk, who has called himself a free-speech absolutist, while also vowing to take a hard line on child exploitation, faces growing calls for enforcement around the world and in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Carr, who has previously styled himself as a free speech absolutist, argues that stations have the right to pull the show if owners believe the content conflicts with community standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
This can lead people to embrace authoritarian leaders, conspiracy theories or absolutist ideologies — not because they’re irrational, but because they are trying to escape uncertainty.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
Saint-Simon knew that when kings embrace their own flattery, they open themselves to manipulation, and the writer viewed Louis XIV as an illusory absolutist who was in fact controlled by fawning scoundrels.
From Slate ● May 30, 2025
The first conception is based upon the idea of the state's omnipotence as it was most sharply defined in the absolutist doctrines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
From The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens by Max Farrand
