paleoconservative
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From paleo- + conservative, by analogy with neoconservative.
Noun
[edit]paleoconservative (plural paleoconservatives)
- (US politics) A political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, opposing mass immigration, embracing states' rights and supporting cultural conservatism and social structures perceived to be traditional.
- Coordinate term: neoconservative
- 1979 February 13, “The Neocons”, in Esquire:
- In fact, the neoconservative Moynihan running in New York against the paleoconservative James Buckley was able to position himself as the proper heir to a New Deal liberal tradition that Moynihan had been vigorously criticizing for almost a decade.
- 1992, Robert Hughes, “The Fraying of America”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 3 January 2010:
- If they are fraying now, it is at least in part due to the prevalence of demagogues who wish to claim that there is only one path to virtuous American-ness: paleoconservatives like Jesse Helms and Pat Robertson who think this country has one single ethic, […] .
- 1999, Joseph Scotchie, The Paleoconservatives, page 11:
- As noted earlier, immigration was the issue that sent the open border Right on a search-and-destroy mission against paleoconservatives.
Translations
[edit]person espousing paleoconservatism
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Adjective
[edit]paleoconservative (comparative more paleoconservative, superlative most paleoconservative)
- (US politics) Holding views associated with paleoconservatism.
- 2022 March 4, Thomas Zimmer, “America’s culture war is spilling into actual war-war”, in The Guardian[2]:
- In 2013, for instance, Pat Buchanan, a leading voice on the “paleoconservative” traditionalist right, described Putin as “one of us,” an ally in what he saw as the defining struggle of our era, […]
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]holding the views associated with paleoconservatism
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Further reading
[edit]- Paleoconservatism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia