They were a terrifying feature of the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, when victims of the campaign were forced to admit ideological "mistakes" in front of huge crowds.
By itself, one of these positions -- back-loading entitlement cuts, allowing environmental collapse, prioritizing today's tax cuts -- could be written off as an ideological difference or honest mistake, two as unfortunate political opportunism.
"The whole Buckley experiment may have been a passing phase," says Lind – a strange interlude when a cohort of writers mistook their ideological preferences for the will of the people and, even stranger, provided the basis for an industry based on that delusion.
Mandelson dismissed accusations that he was motivated by "ideological zeal for change" as "completely mistaken".
Make no mistake, this policy is purely ideological – in Sweden, it has seen the biggest slump in standards anywhere in the world.
During the cold war, the American ideological fear of communism led us to mistake every muddle-headed leftist for a Soviet pawn.
Make no mistake: Peterson is waging an ideological battle.
Newsweek may have erred in its report of an alleged desecration of the Koran, but any mistake stemmed from faulty journalism, not ideological bias.
Personal animosities, ideological or political differences, participatory failures and/or managerial mistakes may occur.
