paleoconservative
Anti-interventionist right-winger
A paleoconservative is an American conservative who emphasizes traditional values, limited government, and nationalist foreign policy while opposing military interventionism abroad and mass immigration.
The term distinguishes this older strain of conservatism from neoconservatives, who favor a more activist foreign policy.
Paleoconservatives often critique free trade agreements and globalist institutions: Pat Buchanan became the most prominent paleoconservative voice in the 1990s.
Governance bound by fundamental laws
- non-interventionismAvoid foreign entanglements doctrine
- originalismInterpreting by founding-era meaning
- anti-federalistOpponent of centralized governance
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
federalism · anti-communism · republicanism · anti-globalism · paternalism · subsidiarity · localism · agrarianism
Supreme independent authority
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- protectionismShielding local producers
- isolationismPolicy avoiding foreign alliances
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
citizenship · homeland · allegiance · autarky · tariffs · anti-interventionism
Opposed to armed conflict
- anti-globalizationOpposition to worldwide economic integration
- anti-immigrationOpposed to foreign settlement
- anti-interventionismOpposition to foreign entanglement
- anti-elitismDistrust of privileged classes
constitutionalism
Governance bound by fundamental laws
- non-interventionismAvoid foreign entanglements doctrine
- originalismInterpreting by founding-era meaning
- anti-federalistOpponent of centralized governance
decentralization · federalism · anti-communism · republicanism · anti-globalism · paternalism · subsidiarity · localism · agrarianism
sovereignty
Supreme independent authority
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- protectionismShielding local producers
- isolationismPolicy avoiding foreign alliances
nativism · citizenship · homeland · allegiance · autarky · tariffs · anti-interventionism
antiwar
Opposed to armed conflict
- anti-globalizationOpposition to worldwide economic integration
- anti-immigrationOpposed to foreign settlement
- anti-interventionismOpposition to foreign entanglement
anti-elitism · modernity · cosmopolitanism · decline · empire
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- continuityUninterrupted progression or coherence
- ancestryFamily line of descent
roots · lineage · legacy · morality · piety · orthodoxy · religion · Christianity · agrarian · community
Chronicles
Two Old Testament histories
- conservatismtraditionalism, small government, free enterprise, family values, individualism
- political labelsliberal, leftist, rightist, moderate, centrist
paleoconservativeneoconservative
Hawkish interventionist ideology
neocon · war hawk · Reaganite · libertarian · fusionist
paleoconservativeprogressive
Favoring reform and innovation
liberal · leftist · radical · socialist · social democrat
paleoconservativeglobalist
Advocate for worldwide integration
internationalist · cosmopolitan · free trader · multiculturalist
paleo, paleolithic, paleontology, paleontologist, paleography, conservative, conserve, conserving, conserved