Definition of "establishmentarian" [es•tab•lish•men•ta•ri•an]

• Of, relating to, or supporting the political or social establishment. (adjective)

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• "As a recent Washington Monthly profile laid out, Hoyer is considered a centrist on foreign policy issues, an "establishmentarian" and the leadership's unofficial liason to the conservative Blue Dog Democrats caucus."
• "Casting him as the corrupt and vicious Cuban police captain known as the Red Vulture struck me as inspired until I remembered how often Kovacs the absurdist, iconoclastic comedian appeared in movies playing establishmentarian authority figures straight."
• "What they are are establishmentarian types comfortable with the status quo who don't hate gay people and want their wives and daughters and selves to have access to abortion and accept it more or less as a given that poor people's children probably shouldn't be left to starve in the streets, provided it doesn't cost too much money to feed them and move them inside at least during the winter."