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establishmentarianism

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es·tab·lish·men·tar·i·an  (-stblsh-mn-târ-n)
adj.
Of, relating to, or supporting the political or social establishment.
es·tablish·men·tari·an n.
es·tablish·men·tari·an·ism n.
establishmentarianism
official recognition of a church as a national institution, especially the Church of England. Cf. antidisestablishmentarianism.
See also: Religion
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Noun1.establishmentarianism - the doctrine of supporting the social or political establishment
establishmentism
doctrine, ism, philosophical system, philosophy, school of thought - a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school


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It's less Hoyer's centrism that may cause problems for Democrats, and more what might be called his establishmentarianism.
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Monuments to transplanted European establishmentarianism and intolerance are the statues on the lawn of the Massachusetts state capitol of Anne Hutchinson, expelled from the colony in 1638 for the crime of holding unauthorized religious gatherings in her home (and, though the legend on her statue's pedestal does not mention it, being of the wrong gender to lead religious discussions), and Mary Dyer, executed on Boston Common in 1660 for the crime of being a Ouaker.
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The Bush administration's betes noire aren't patriarchy, racism, and homophobia, but establishmentarianism, big-government liberalism, and what they see as pervasive foreign policy namby-pambyism.
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