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The show gestures at the classic targets of old-timey sexism, small-mindedness, and nativism—much of it embodied by Gasteyer’s scheming character—but only in the safest possible ways.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
Artists took imagery and iconography from Regionalism—think Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton—which leaned toward heartland nativism.
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Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
Not a Klansman from the era of lynching, but far from a typical conservative of the nineties and aughts, Peter effectively shifted Republicans away from neoconservatism and toward nativism.
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Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
That vision of worldwide economic and cultural interdependence that enabled the proliferation of biennials in the ’90s has been steadily eroding amid the recent rise in nativism and far-right movements in the United States and Europe.
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Smooth Nzewi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
21 Apr. 2026
Artists took imagery and iconography from Regionalism—think Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton—which leaned toward heartland nativism.
—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
Not a Klansman from the era of lynching, but far from a typical conservative of the nineties and aughts, Peter effectively shifted Republicans away from neoconservatism and toward nativism.
—
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
That vision of worldwide economic and cultural interdependence that enabled the proliferation of biennials in the ’90s has been steadily eroding amid the recent rise in nativism and far-right movements in the United States and Europe.
—
Smooth Nzewi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nativism
xenophobia
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Torres lamented that the nation’s landmark semiquincentennial comes amid a fever pitch of anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States, marked by a rise in xenophobia and an onslaught of attempts to restrict newcomers here and abroad.
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Removing all possibility that the president’s xenophobia is nonracial, the administration has implemented what is effectively a whites-only refugee policy that accepts solely South Africans of European descent.
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“Nativism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nativism. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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