paleoconservative

plural paleoconservatives · alternative palaeoconservative

1. USgovernmentA political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, opposing mass immigration, embracing states' rights and supporting cultural conservatism and social structures perceived to be traditional.

   As noted earlier, immigration was the issue that sent the open border Right on a search-and-destroy mission against paleoconservatives.

   1999, Joseph Scotchie, The Paleoconservatives, page 11

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   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.

   1979 February 13, “The Neocons”, in Esquire

   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, […].

   1992 February 3, Robert Hughes, “The Fraying of America”, in Time, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2010

   Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard.

   2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN

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1. USgovernmentHolding views associated with paleoconservatism.

   The first of Bannon's ten documentary film pamphlets, In the Face of Evil (2014), still followed a rather classic neoconservative narrative, albeit with a paleoconservative touch.

   2019, Jonas Staal, Propaganda Art in the 21st Century, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 101

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   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,[…]

   2022 March 4, Thomas Zimmer, “America’s culture war is spilling into actual war-war”, in The Guardian