paleoconservatism

Nationalist traditional conservatism

Paleoconservatism is a strain of American conservatism emphasizing tradition, nationalism, and skepticism toward foreign intervention and free trade.

It arose in the 1980s as a reaction against neoconservatism, which paleoconservatives saw as too interventionist abroad and too liberal on immigration and culture.

Paleocons typically favor restrictive immigration, protectionist economics, and a foreign policy of nonintervention: The paleoconservative case against the Iraq War.

The prefix paleo- (old) signals a claim to older, pre-Cold War conservative principles.

ideology

traditionalism

Adherence to inherited customs

nativism · populism · restrictionism · agrarianism · localism · decentralism · anti-interventionism · constitutionalism · communitarianism

figures

Buchanan

  • TaftAmerican political surname
  • KirkScottish masculine name
  • FlemingPerson from Flanders

Francis · Rockford · Chronicles · Paul

values

tradition

Custom passed through generations

order · continuity · rootedness · custom · hierarchy · prudence · piety · particularism · place · permanence

opposition

globalism

Cross-border economic integration doctrine

free trade · nation-building · cosmopolitanism · egalitarianism · progressivism · imperialism

Opposites
conservative ideology type

paleoconservatismneoconservatism

Hawkish pro-democracy interventionist ideology

political ideology spectrum

paleoconservatismprogressivism

Philosophy advocating societal reform

democratic socialism · social democracy · neoliberalism · multiculturalism · Marxism

nationalism and globalism

paleoconservatismglobalism

Cross-border economic integration doctrine

internationalism · cosmopolitanism · interventionism · transnationalism · multilateralism

Family

conservative, conservatives, conservatism, paleo, neoconservative, neoconservatism

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