Similarly, Reagan's ideological heirs mounted an assault on the more tepid Republican leadership of the late 1980s and early 1990s, building the momentum that enabled Gingrich to create his unlikely Republican majority.
The Redeker case is the latest manifestation in Europe of a mounting ideological battle that pits those who believe Islam and the Prophet Muhammad can be criticized in the name of free speech against those in the Muslim community who believe no criticism can be tolerated.
Obama may have decided that there is no percentage in trying to mount an ideological challenge to Clintonism, and that his case against the Clintons should be more subtle.
What Dean said he didn't find reasonable, however, was the GOP's recent insistence on mounting larger ideological battles by tacking on social spending cuts to its budget proposals.
Is the left going to mount a coherent ideological challenge to the right, or are these just border skirmishes?
What red state grassroots climate activists were seeing, in 2008 and 2009, was a mounting perfect storm of ideological opposition to any form of federal action on climate.
The Taliban's ideological strategy had been flanked by the mounting American "surge," the same surge that had brought Bergdahl to Afghanistan and was making the US military and intelligence community nervous.
It isn't just that science has in general lacked structures for mounting effective resistance to political and ideological interference.
In doing so, it forces Saudi Arabia to walk a tightrope in balancing its policies that severely restrict women's and other human rights with its fending off of mounting international criticism that it is jihadism's ideological mother lode.
Some nomination fights (like Bork's) have hinged on ideological conflicts, as was the case when Republicans in the Senate mounted a filibuster to prevent the liberal Abe Fortas from becoming chief justice.
