Paleoconservative
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Paleoconservative is a noun meaning (US politics) Holding views associated with paleoconservatism.
Meaning
(US politics) Holding views associated with paleoconservatism.
More Meanings
- (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.
Example Sentences
As noted earlier, immigration was the issue that sent the open border Right on a search-and-destroy mission against paleoconservatives.
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.
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,[…]
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.
Word Forms
- paleoconservatives
- palaeoconservative
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include paleo, paleoconservatism, paleolibertarian, paleoliberal, neoconservative, conservative.
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