reactionary faction

In both cases, however, we see a large, reactionary faction rejecting an election loss, and that act serving as the catalyst for a crisis of democratic legitimacy.

Listen to Manchin’s fellow Democrats talk about their political position and the constitutional structures impeding them, and you would be forgiven for thinking that they have been winning commanding majorities for years, of the sort enjoyed by Franklin Roosevelt or Lyndon Johnson, while being thwarted again and again by a much smaller reactionary faction.

But a reactionary faction, led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, insisted that the New Deal was un-American.

Defeating TPA, and thus the agreement, is a service most House Democrats will perform for a reactionary faction, organized labor.

The scary thing about this nuclear explosion in Virginia is that it portends a battle royal for the soul of the Republican Party and pits a radical, righteous, reactionary faction against a more traditional, conservative, pragmatic faction.