Definitions
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paleoconservative : a person who holds positions associated with paleoconservatism, such asstates' rights and opposition to social change
Etymologies
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I’ve heard the term paleocon used to refer to this group.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Baby Steps To Authoritarianism 2006
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I’ve heard the term paleocon used to refer to this group.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Baby Steps To Authoritarianism 2006
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I've never understood who the term "paleocon" is supposed to refer to?
Latest Articles The San Antonio Express-News via The Seattle Post- 2008
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I've never understood who the term "paleocon" is supposed to refer to?
Latest Articles The San Antonio Express-News via The Seattle Post- 2008
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Paleoconservatives, who generally believe most other American conservatives have "sold out" to immoral liberality and are "corrupt tools of the establishment," include such stalwarts as Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak, whose disagreements with neoconservatives about the Iraq war have earned him the "paleocon" label from David Frum of the National Review and Thomas Schaller of Salon. com, among others.
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Rauch and Frum (and the rest of the Northeast paleocon set) have gotten it in their heads that the way to promote conservatism is to become more liberal, so that the Great Unwashed will like it more.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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Ideological labels are all but totally irrelevant to him, causing various others to label him as right-wing, paleocon, leftist, liberal, libertarian and etc.
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Ideological labels are all but totally irrelevant to him, causing various others to label him as right-wing, paleocon, leftist, liberal, libertarian and etc.
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In practice, most of those who * would* actively campaign for its removal are of an opposite architectural-taste disposition from Rochon, hardcore paleocon anti-modernists and the like.
» Toronto’s new-old is the new beautiful • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape 2009
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Crunchy Frog: Rauch and Frum (and the rest of the Northeast paleocon set) have gotten it in their heads that the way to promote conservatism is to become more liberal, so that the Great Unwashed will like itmore.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Rauch on David Frum on the Conservative Movement 2010
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