I'm agnostic on the question of whether Limbaugh's motivation was racial contempt or ideological fanaticism or both, but I don't think it's what matters.
Tsipras has decided to get into bed with the rightwing Independent Greeks, a party that shares none of Syriza's ideological convictions, save two: contempt for fiscal probity, and resentment of Europe.
Conservatives — or Tories, as they are also called — are counting on Cameron to rescue them from the ideological confusion and public contempt that has been their lot since New Labour, behind Tony Blair, drove them from power in 1997, handing the party its worst drubbing since its founding in the 1830s.
Though she ran a comparatively centrist campaign in New York, she still came under intense fire not only for her supposedly radical progovernment proposals but for her alleged contempt for her ideological rivals.
At least since the Red Scare of the 1950s, mainstream institutions had viewed ideological conservatism with condescension or contempt, as either a joke or a personality disorder — a series of "irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas," in Lionel Trilling's excellent summary.
In Bolsonaro, Trump may see an ideological fellow politician who shares his contempt for international agreements and organizations.
When Richard Nixon was elected in 1968, he had been in public life for more than 20 years, and he cultivated a reputation as a staunch, unyielding ideological Cold Warrior who had little but contempt for liberals and elites.
And now it gets complicated with our Jewish brothers and sisters because you've got vicious anti-Jewish contempt shot through the Breitbart-like ideological orientation.
Yet Hunt was not serious in suggesting they include Liberal Democrats, with an "ideological fixation with the free market", or Conservatives, who have a "growing contempt for the cultural fabric of Britain".
