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By using the word “conservative” repeatedly they wish to be seen as champions of free enterprise and traditional norms instead of the radical subverters of democracy they really are.

He has tweeted, “I don’t regard the F.B.I. as an upholder of the rule of law. I regard it as a subverter of it.”

Other feminists, who called themselves “sex positive,” saw sex workers as subverters of patriarchy, not as victims.

This Royal Commissioner reported that he was in danger of his life, and that the authorities resolved to prosecute him as a subverter of their government.

“At every opportunity,” he wrote, “the ‘subverters’ before our eyes become ‘self-satisfied gentlemen,’ who oppose any changes and jealously guard their status and privileges.