Here’s a good explanation of what neoconservatism is:
“AMY GOODMAN: In 2006, you write that George W. Bush said to his father, “What’s a neocon?”
ANDREW COCKBURN: That’s right. One of the rare moments of sort of communication between the two. Bush said to — they were out at Kennebunkport, and Bush Jr. says, “Can I ask you a question? What’s a neocon?” And the father says, “Do you want names or a description?” The President says, “I’ll take a description.” He says, “I’ll give it to you in one word: Israel,”
Daddy - what’s a ‘neocon’?! Ethnic mafia wars is the USA
https://vineyardsaker.blogspot.com/2007/05/daddy-whats-neocon-ethnic-mafia-wars-is.html
Maybe, maybe not.
Some of the stuff on the internet is too “true” to really be true.
Cockburn’s father was a Communist liar, so maybe it runs in the family.
As Neoconservative David Horowitz explained, Neoconservativsm was born during the Six Day War.
Neoconservatives were Leftist Jews who were also fiercely pro-Israel and concerned with Soviet Jewry. But they supported all the left-wing, anti-establishment causes during the Sixties. They opposed traditional, Christian conservative values.
During the Six Day War, these Leftist Jewish Zionists saw their Black Panther allies, all their leftist allies, side with the Palestinians. And they saw Nixon support Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
And so Leftists Jewish Zionists came over to conservatism, primarily to help Israel and Soviet Jewry. But they remained hostile to America as a white Christian culture. They pushed for secularism, open borders, and libertarian morals concerning drugs and sex.
Neoconservatives waged war against traditionalist Russell Kirk types. They purged Joseph Sobran in the 1990s, and tried to purge Pat Buchanan.
They pushed for the Gulf War and the Iraq War, largely to make the Mideast a safer place for Israel.