The ists
Across
- 2. What a secessionist calls the local municipal tax code.
- 4. Excessive and single-minded zeal for a particular cause.
- 7. A system of ranking that the elitist assumes they sit atop.
- 8. A person seeking power without any restriction or exception.
- 11. The hallmark of a supremacist's view toward other groups.
- 13. Traditional beliefs that the fundamentalist claims to protect.
- 14. Someone who forgets their own ancestors were also interlopers.
- 17. Language designed to have a persuasive effect, often lacking logic.
- 20. A strict adherent to a text who ignores the parts about being nice.
- 23. The setting for a split-level home's declaration of independence.
- 25. A system of government by one person with absolute power.
- 27. Someone who might move from simple petitions to radical action.
- 28. The perfect society every "ist" thinks they are building.
- 33. The division into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions.
- 34. The driving force behind many fringe conspiracy theories.
- 36. A person who believes a loud explosion is a proper form of debate.
- 37. A person who is combative or aggressive in support of a cause.
- 39. A term a fundamentalist might use for those they haven't judged yet.
- 40. The independent authority a homeowner tries to claim over a driveway.
- 43. The process of blending in that nativists demand of everyone else.
- 44. A social concept rejected by those seeking cultural homogeneity.
- 45. A set of beliefs that usually fails to account for a hungry tiger.
- 47. The general term for anyone holding fanatical or radical views.
- 48. A person rising in active revolt against an established government.
- 49. The dim and thin-aired margins where the "ists" reside.
- 50. A person who claims nothing matters but still demands high-quality coffee.
Down
- 1. The very thing an anarchist committee accidentally creates.
- 3. A rebel against all authority who still insists on using a coaster.
- 5. An intense or irrational fear of people from other countries.
- 6. A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
- 9. A potential ancestral home for a confused American nativist.
- 10. What the anarchist claims to love until their furniture is at risk.
- 12. A supporter of authoritarian ultranationalism who loves matching hats.
- 15. One whose primary life achievement is the accident of their biology.
- 16. A movement often co-opted by those on the extreme edges.
- 18. One who believes they should lead despite failing to use a QR code.
- 19. The type of printer used by a one-man nation to make currency.
- 21. A suburbanite attempting to declare their three-bedroom home a sovereign nation.
- 22. A political stance so far removed that reasonable people overlook it.
- 24. A leader who seeks support by appealing to prejudices rather than reason.
- 26. The feeling of being isolated from the "lukewarm" center.
- 29. Those who maintain active hostility toward a particular group.
- 30. Vigorous action taken to bring about social or political change.
- 31. The rigid set of rules a fundamentalist refuses to question.
- 32. A person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their ideals.
- 35. The geographical limit of a secessionist's new independent territory.
- 38. A supporter of public life guided strictly by religious statute.
- 41. A minivan-driving enforcer who handles justice without a legal system.
- 42. The state of being all the same, often craved by the "ists."
- 46. The act of inciting revolt, often planned in a suburban basement.