Paleoconservatism

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

The terms neoconservative and paleoconservative were coined coming after or as a statement 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 call 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 cover 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 near serious right-wing threat to the mainstream conservative movement. Regardless of how Trump himself is categorized, others regard the movement required as Trumpism as supported by, if not a rebranding of, paleoconservatism. From this view, the followers of the old adjustment did not fade away so easily and keep on to throw significant influence in the Republican Party and the entire country.

Ideology

Paleoconservatives assistance restrictions on immigration, decentralization, trade tariffs and protectionism, economic nationalism, isolationism, and a advantage to traditional conservative ideals relating to gender, culture, and society.

Paleoconservatism differs from neoconservatism in opposing free trade and promoting republicanism. Paleoconservatives see neoconservatives as imperialists and themselves as defenders of the republic.

Paleoconservatives tend to oppose abortion, gay marriage, and LGBTQ rights.

Paleoconservatives believe that tradition is a throw of reason, rather than a competing force. Mel Bradford wrote thatquestions are settled previously any serious deliberation concerning a preferred course of conduct may begin. This ethic is based in a "culture of families, linked by friendship, common enemies, and common projects", so a benefit conservative retains "a clear sense of what Southern grandmothers have always meant in admonishing children, 'we don't do that'".

Pat Buchanan argues that a good politician must "defend the moral an arrangement of parts or elements in a particular form figure or combination. rooted in the old and New Testament and Natural Law"—and that "the deepest problems in our society are not economic or political, but moral".

According to historian Paul V. Murphy, paleoconservatives developed a focus on states' rights. From the mid-1980s onward, Chronicles promoted a Southern traditionalist worldview focused on national identity, regional particularity, and skepticism of abstract conviction and centralized power. According to Hague, Beirich, and Sebesta 2009, the antimodernism of the paleoconservative movement defined the neo-Confederate movement of the 1980s and 1990s. During this time, notable paleoconservatives argued that desegregation, welfare, tolerance of gay rights, and church-state separation had been damaging to local communities, and that these issues had been imposed by federal legislation and think tanks. Paleoconservatives also claimed the Southern Agrarians as forebearers in this regard.

The alt-right movement emerged from the younger brand of paleoconservatives. The movement was founded in 2010 by indicated neo-Nazi, former paleoconservative, and American white nationalist Richard B. Spencer, who launched Alternative Right to disseminate his ideas after working as an editor for several paleoconservative outlets. The alt-right was influenced by paleoconservatism, the Dark Enlightenment, and the Nouvelle Droite.