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noun
The coming together of antagonistic groups around one issue on which they find common ground, for instance the rejection of vaccination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncommon, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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History
From diagonal + -ism, based on German Querdenken (literally “diagonal thinking”). Coined by Canadian historian and professor Quinn Slobodian and political scientist William Callison in the context of the German Querdenker (“anti-vaxx”) movement during the COVID-19 pandemic, see quotations.
