He considered peasants a reactionary force and peasant societies a drag on historical progress.
The first is that the Democratic Party is constitutionally incapable of opposing the profoundly reactionary policies of the Republican right.
And that to believe otherwise is to be a heartless, right-wing reactionary .
All in all, the five constituted a well-connected and thoroughly reactionary group.
But in addition to being erratic, Lewis has a particularly reactionary political agenda.
Social tensions are so pronounced that even the reactionary clerics speak of reform.
Can they proceed without grasping how the great mass upsurge of 1979 brought to power a thoroughly reactionary regime?
He is a follower of Iran's Khomeini and a radical reactionary on social issues.
To make matters even worse, a Democratic president, Buchanan, gave his political support to these reactionary efforts.
We have a reactionary police force and they respond to the complaints of residents.