A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favor a

Ocean City - A reactionary is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the previous political state of society, which they believe possessed characteristics (discipline, respect for authority, etc.) that are negatively absent from the contemporary status quo of a society. Both the overtly-liberal Obama administration and the incredibly stubborn Republican Congress has opened the doors for an extreme reactionary candidate, Donald Trump. Whether people love or hate Trump, he is clearly a reactionary phenomenon. Those who defend either Obama or Congress just have no sense of history.