Recent Examples on the WebThese villages run the gamut from statist to localist. Robert Brooks, National Review, 28 July 2021 According to those hard-braking statists, the average American driver slows on the brakes 19 times for every 1,000 miles driven.oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019 Biden also offers what statists truly crave: control. Deroy Murdock, National Review, 7 June 2019 The left’s narrative of unaccountable capitalism provides a rationale for another regulatory-state power grab, with union stakeholder friends of statists serving as their proxies.WSJ, 18 Sep. 2018 The pedagogical divide mirrors a political one between conservative statists and liberal technocrats.The Economist, 26 May 2018 In each case, statists in America are more impressed by the foreign top-down designs than with the track record of free-market capitalism here at home. Stanley F. Druckenmiller, WSJ, 2 May 2018 Mr Ulyukayev was a stalwart of the government’s technocratic bloc; Mr Sechin is a committed statist and a longtime confidant of Vladimir Putin who wields outsize influence among the siloviki (former and current members of the security services).The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017 See More