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absolutism

[ab-suh-loo-tiz-uhm] / ˈæb sə luˌtɪz əm /
NOUN
absolute control by government
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The GOP’s conversion to gun absolutism is the heart of the problem.

From Washington Post

The West, rather than treating a disoriented post-Soviet Russia “professionally, smoothly, patiently,” had flaunted its power with a “state of euphoria created by the feeling of absolute superiority, a kind of modern absolutism.”

From Washington Post

This feigned constitutional absolutism on gun control is ridiculous on its face.

From Salon

And Matt Yglesias is a person who exists in this world, with all its intellectual absolutism and strategic compromise.

From Washington Post

If there’s anything to learn from the Musk era at Twitter, it’s that the free-speech absolutism Mr. Musk claimed to espouse is untenable as a guiding principle.

From Washington Post