Hardline

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This article is about the political epithet. Hardline also refers to hardline (syncretic movement), an offshoot of straight edge based on animal liberation, Islam and Rastafarianism. For the Hard Rock band, see Hardline.

In politics, hardline refers to the doctrine, policy, and posturing of a government or political body as being absolutist, or authoritarian. Hardline movements are usually extremist, militant, and uncompromising. Hardline movements range across the entire political spectrum, from black nationalism to objectivism, from neo-Nazism to radical feminism.