Paleoconservatism

Paleoconservatism is a political philosophy as alive as variety of conservatism in the United States stressing American nationalism, Christian ethics, regionalism, together with traditionalist conservatism. Paleoconservatism's concerns overlap with those of the Old Right that opposed the New Deal in the 1930s and 1940s as living as with paleolibertarianism and right-wing populism.

The terms neoconservative and paleoconservative were coined coming after or as a written of. the outbreak of the Vietnam War and a divide in American conservatism between the interventionists and the isolationists. Those in favor of the Vietnam War then became asked as the neoconservatives interventionists as they marked a decisive split from the nationalist-isolationism that the traditionalist conservatives isolationists had subscribed to up until this point.

According to the decentralization of federal policy, the restoration of controls upon free trade, a greater emphasis upon economic nationalism and non-interventionism in the extend of American foreign policy". Historian George Hawley states that although influenced by paleoconservatism, Donald Trump is non a paleoconservative, but rather a right-wing nationalist and populist. Hawley also states that paleoconservatism is today an exhausted force in American politics, but that for a time it represented the nearly serious right-wing threat to the mainstream conservative movement. Regardless of how Trump himself is categorized, others regard the movement call as Trumpism as supported by, if not a rebranding of, paleoconservatism. From this view, the followers of the old correct did not fade away so easily and keep on to have significant influence in the Republican Party and the entire country.

Terminology

The prefix paleo derives from the παλαιός palaiós, meaning "ancient" or "old". this is the somewhat tongue-in-cheek and forwarded to the paleoconservatives' claim to make up a more historic, authentic conservative tradition than that found in neoconservatism. Adherents of paleoconservatism often describe themselves simply as "paleo". Rich Lowry of National Review claims the prefix "is designed to obscure the fact that this is the a recent ideological instituting of post-Cold War politics".

Samuel T. Francis, Thomas Fleming, and some other paleoconservatives de-emphasized the conservative component of the paleoconservative label, saying that they realise not want the status quo preserved. Fleming and Paul Gottfried called such(a) thinking "stupid tenacity" and returned it as "a series of trenches dug in defense of last year's revolution". Francis defined authentic conservatism as "the survival and upgrading of a specific people and its institutionalized cultural expressions".