Word: backlasher
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Indeed, Sociologist Vern Bengtson of the University of Southern California's Andrus Gerontology Center foresees an "age backlash" in the coming decades, a period
...politicians are more keenly aware of the existence of this category of Americans than Richard Nixon. During the long Viet Nam negotiations, Henry Kissinger, in his private explanations of Nixon's policy, always stressed the President's fear of a future backlash among such voters if they came to believe that the peace settlement was dishonorable. Many Republican politicians similarly fear that if Nixon's guilt is not firmly established, he will become a martyr (with disastrous political consequences for years to come). Nixon may hope to achieve such martyrdom by resigning after the House vote, sparing...
...much attention must be paid to fears of backlash or martyrdom? For the sake of the public temper, how universally approved must any major political decision be? The questions matter because the well-being of society depends on more than democracy's numbers and nose counts...
...being fully satisfied. There is no denying that if the minority loses once the issue is put to the test, it will still find the decision hard to accept. But the rights of a minority do not include having others defer to them out of a fear of backlash from their displeasure; backlash is not an argument to be met, but only a conjecture, a caution and a threat. The majority, too, has rights and if, after all the debating and deciding, the trial and the defense, the majority's own sense of the rightness of its case were...
...court said, cannot be dictated by Government. But other legal problems persist. This spring a committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors warned that press successes in Watergate would not diminish challenges by legislatures, law-enforcement officials and grand juries. Many journalists fear that Watergate has created a backlash against a press perceived as having grown too powerful...