palaeoconservative

A form of paleoconservative — A political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, opposing mass immigration, embracing states' rights and supporting cultural conservatism and social structures perceived to be traditional.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

adjectivepalaeoconservative (comparative more palaeoconservative, superlative most palaeoconservative)

comparative more palaeoconservative · superlative most palaeoconservative

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of paleoconservative.
    1 more example

    Far from thinking of that election result as ‘a mark of the spreading influence of neo-conservative intellectuals’, I think that the only intellectual who clearly exercised a significant influence in bringing about the defeat of Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan was that eminent palaeoconservative scholar, Imam Khomeini.

    1989, Conor Cruise O’Brien, Passion & Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism and Revolution, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 252, →ISBN
nounpalaeoconservative (plural palaeoconservatives)

plural palaeoconservatives

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of paleoconservative.
    1 more example

    Ecology, already decried as a new and dangerous form of socialism by a considerable part of the Right (from libertarians and industrialists to the so-called Palaeoconservatives, vide the anti-environmentalist “Wise Use” movement in the US), can now be attacked from the other side as well, viz. by linking it with Hitler.

    2001, Koenraad Elst, The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of “Hindu Fascism”, volume 2, Voice of India, →ISBN, page 659, →ISBN
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APA

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Chicago

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