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Word: thermidorian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Part of McCain's appeal to college students, then, has to do with his gentle contempt for their parents: his rhetoric is, in part, meant to cause something of a Thermidorian Reaction against the ever-indulgent boomers. Rebelling against rebellion is a difficult trick, but with a clever slight of hand a skilled leader can rouse the rabble under the flag of prudence...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: McCain's Moral Equivalent of War | 3/8/2000 | See Source »

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