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• n  commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
• n  someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

• They've even lost the enthusiasm of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez, an unabashed FARC sympathizer who had brokered the release of a handful of other hostages this year.
• No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem he had once written .
• But it was on the mercy of Governor Fuller that many a Sacco Vanzetti sympathizer pinned his hopes.

• sympathiser
• comforter
• well-wisher

News & Articles

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• Chris Matthews likens Ted Cruz to Nazi sympathizer Father Coughlin
  MSNBC host Chris Matthews has once again railed against Sen. Ted Cruz, this time likening him to the notorious Nazi sympathizer, Father Coughlin, Mediaite first reported Wednesday. "In 2010, when [Cruz] said that Obama would make a perfect president of Harvard Law School because, quote, 'There were fewer declared Republicans ...
  June 13, 2013 - The Washington Times
• Chris Matthews: Ted Cruz ‘Fits In Tradition’ With Nazi Sympathizer Father Coughlin
  Amid a segment discussing the new generation of Republican voices in the U.S. Senate, MSNBC host Chris Matthews railed against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Matthews said that Cruz “fits in the tradition” of reviled historical figures like notorious Nazi sympathizer and radio host Father Coughlin and 1950s-era anti-communist Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI).
  June 12, 2013 - Mediaite

Quotes

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• J Edgar Hoover in Chicago Tribune
  For example, in one memo, then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wrote to HR Haldeman, President Nixon's chief aide, that "Lennon had taken an interest in `extreme left-wing activities in Britain' and is known to be a sympathizer of Trotskyist communists...
• Zacarias Moussaoui in USA Today
  Moussaoui said he wants "anthrax for Jew sympathizer only," called Attorney General John Ashcroft "the Democratic Jerk" and referred to Brinkema as "Leonie you Despotically Judge."
• Ronald Reagan in Consortium News
  Angered by the revelations about his contra "freedom-fighters," Reagan denounced Brody in a speech on April 15, 1985, calling him "one of dictator [Daniel] Ortega's supporters, a sympathizer who has openly embraced Sandinismo."