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Palaeoconservative vs Paleoconservative - What's the difference?

palaeoconservative | paleoconservative | Alternative forms |

Palaeoconservative is an alternative form of paleoconservative.


As adjectives the difference between palaeoconservative and paleoconservative

is that palaeoconservative is while paleoconservative is (us|politics) holding views associated with paleoconservatism, including opposition to the federal government and social change.

As nouns the difference between palaeoconservative and paleoconservative

is that palaeoconservative is while paleoconservative is (us|politics) a political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, embracing states' rights and social structures perceived to be traditional.

palaeoconservative

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • * 1989 : Conor Cruise O’Brien, Passion & Cunning: Essays on Nationalism, Terrorism and Revolution , page 252 (Simon and Schuster; ISBN 0671687468, 9780671687465)
  • Far from thinking of that election result as ‘a mark of the spreading influence of neo-conservative intellectuals’, I think that the only intellectual who clearly exercised a significant influence in bringing about the defeat of Jimmy Carter and the election of Ronald Reagan was that eminent palaeoconservative scholar, Imam Khomeini.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 2001 : Koenraad Elst, The Saffron Swastika: The Notion of “Hindu Fascism” , volume 2, page 659 (Voice of India; ISBN 8185990697, 9788185990699)
  • Ecology, already decried as a new and dangerous form of socialism by a considerable part of the Right (from libertarians and industrialists to the so-called Palaeoconservatives , vide the anti-environmentalist “Wise Use” movement in the US), can now be attacked from the other side as well, viz. by linking it with Hitler.

    paleoconservative

    English

    Alternative forms

    * palaeoconservative

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, politics) A political conservative who espouses paleoconservatism, embracing states' rights and social structures perceived to be traditional
  • * {{quote-news, 1979, February 13, , The Neocons, Esquire, url=
  • , passage=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.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 1992, Robert Hughes, The Fraying of America, Time citation
  • , passage=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,
  • * {{quote-book, 1999, Joseph Scotchie, The Paleoconservatives, page=11, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=hsWotNuNjq0C&pg=PA11
  • , passage=As noted earlier, immigration was the issue that sent the open border Right on a search-and-destroy mission against paleoconservatives .}}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US, politics) Holding views associated with paleoconservatism, including opposition to the federal government and social change
  • Derived terms

    * paleocon * paleoconservatism

    See also

    * (Paleoconservatism) English retronyms