[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Here's a definition that seems to fit.

[tpaine]

Good link, as it makes a good
point:
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Many people incorrectly use "reactionary" to mean "acting in response to some outside stimulus." That's reactive.
"Reactionary" actually has a very narrow meaning; it is a noun or adjective describing a form of looking backward that goes beyond conservatism --
-- (wanting to prevent change and maintain present conditions) to reaction-- wanting to recreate a lost past.
The advocates of restoring Czarist rule in Russia are reactionaries.
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-- Thus, 'reactionary' conservatives could be akin to those americans who see a 'lost past', IE, - the south of slavery & 'states rights', as being a desirable political objective. [minus the slavery, of course]
Such conservatives work not towards constitutional restoration, but to recreating the mythical lost cause, -- that of the 'majority' ruled democratic state. -- A tyranny of the majority, not a constitutional free republic.