paleoconservatives

Anti-interventionist right-wingers

Paleoconservatives are traditionalist American conservatives who emphasize nationalism, restrictive immigration, non-interventionist foreign policy, and skepticism of free trade—distinguishing themselves from neoconservatives and mainstream Republicans.

The "paleo" (old) prefix signals allegiance to an older conservatism predating the post-WWII consensus: Paleoconservatives opposed the Iraq War from the start.

Often shortened to paleocons.

ideology

traditionalism

Adherence to inherited customs

anti-interventionism · agrarianism · localism · decentralization · federalism · constitutionalism · anti-globalism · restrictionism · nativism · populism

cultural

Western civilization

Euro-American cultural tradition

identity · rootedness · family values · moral order · assimilation · patrimony · ancestral · regional identity · folk culture · customs

figures

Chronicles

Two Old Testament histories

opposition

neocons

Hawkish conservative interventionists

globalism · multiculturalism · regime change · establishment Republicans · nation-building · cosmopolitanism · neoliberalism

Opposites
conservative faction type

paleoconservativesneoconservatives

Hawkish right-wing interventionists

neocons · neoliberals · interventionists · establishment Republicans · RINOs

political ideology spectrum

paleoconservativesprogressives

Social reform advocates

leftists · liberals · social democrats · democratic socialists · globalists

attitude toward change and tradition

paleoconservativesradicals

Advocates for fundamental change

revolutionaries · modernizers · futurists · progressivists · iconoclasts

Family

paleoconservative

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Mostly American · Timeless · Abstract · Rated G