0 a politician who supports the beliefs of the political right, especially the extreme right:
1 supporting the beliefs of the political right, especially the extreme right, or relating to such beliefs:
Intriguingly, many of these new rightists were the children of old leftists.
I was expelled from the Party and was labeled a rightist as well as a bad element.
Why didn't a rightist get the job?
It has also benefited from controversial alliances with other rightist parties.
Drug money fuelled the three-way war among leftist guerrillas, rightist paramilitaries, and the army.
The common sentiment - "The bad people ruin it for all the rest of us" - captures much of the rightist worldview.
Over the years, the traffickers made common cause with wealthy landowners by funding rightist paramilitary armies to repel the guerrillas.
Certainly anti-foreigner slogans had become central to the rightist parties' election strategy by the late 1970s.
