[Ads-l] "partyism" in 2016

[Joel Berson]

"They found partisans surprisingly willing to discriminate against people who are not members of their political party. We've entered into an age of party-ism."


>From "People Are Angry, and the Problem Is Other People," by Lynn Vavreck", in the NYTimes, April 5, 2916, 
A3 (New England Edition), col. 4.

The OED has quotations from [1811] and 1831 through 2003.  I think this goes a bit beyond "Excessive attachment to a particular (esp. political) party; party spirit."




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