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n. - Ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism).

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  • Peter Brimelow and reader Ryan Kennedy discussed Peggy Noonan’s deviationism from the WSJ position, the last time she wrote a column like this.
  • They cannot allow deviationism to grow on their doorstep.
  • Insiders may anathematize deviationism, but ordinary readers know better.
  • "Insiders may anathematize deviationism, but ordinary readers know better."
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