paleoconservative
paleoconservative noun: a political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, opposing mass immigration, embracing states' rights and supporting cultural conservatism and social structures perceived to be traditional.
Noun
paleoconservative (plural paleoconservatives)
- A political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, opposing mass immigration, embracing states' rights and supporting cultural conservatism and social structures perceived to be traditional.
- 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
Adjective
paleoconservative (comparative more paleoconservative, superlative most paleoconservative)
- Holding 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
- 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
Examples of paleoconservative in a sentence
- 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:
- That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration.2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN:
Forms of paleoconservative
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | paleoconservatives |
| alternative form | palaeoconservative |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more paleoconservative |
| superlative | most paleoconservative |
Origin of paleoconservative
From paleo- + conservative, by analogy with neoconservative.
Words formed from paleoconservative
Questions about paleoconservative
- What does paleoconservative mean?
- Paleoconservative means a political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, opposing mass immigration, embracing states' rights and supporting cultural conservatism and social structures perceived to be traditional.
- How do you use paleoconservative in a sentence?
- As noted earlier, immigration was the issue that sent the open border Right on a search-and-destroy mission against paleoconservatives.
- What part of speech is paleoconservative?
- Paleoconservative can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of paleoconservative?
- The plural of paleoconservative is paleoconservatives.
Words near paleoconservative in the dictionary
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