neoconservatism

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Recent Examples of neoconservatism Not a Klansman from the era of lynching, but far from a typical conservative of the nineties and aughts, Peter effectively shifted Republicans away from neoconservatism and toward nativism. Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026 The Republican Party embraced neoconservatism; Buchanan and his cohort were the stewards of an ideology for cranks. Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026 Indeed, Trump’s foreign policy has often been less a repudiation of neoconservatism than a mutation of it. Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026 And so that’s really the roots of neoconservatism. David Frum, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neoconservatism
Noun
  • The list of names reads like a who’s who of prominent figures of Latin American conservatism.
    Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 30 May 2026
  • But conservatism has a cost when the threat timeline is determined by someone else’s engineering roadmap, not by internal consensus.
    Sandy Peng, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • It’s rooted in traditionalism and an us-versus-them mindset, in which people who look like me, and even certain Cardinals players, wonder if we’d be considered them.
    Candace Buckner, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Patterns, textures, and a rejection of traditionalism have come alive this spring.
    Tiana Randall, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

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“Neoconservatism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neoconservatism. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.

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