[adorno]

"Neo" doesn't mean "new" in "neoconservative in the sense that the person wasn't conservative before. The "Neo" refers to a new kind of conservative--one who feels superior to Trump.

Neo does mean new, and a neocon is a converted person from some other ideology.

The term neocon has been around for decades, so, it has nothing to do with Trump or feeling superior to Trump.

Still, whether a 'new' conservative, or forever having been conservative, the republican party needs all of them, as long as they don't vote for any democrat or liberal or progressive or communist. A neocons may be 'iffy' on some republican issues, but, they're still better than the radical leftists, which most of the democrat congress members seem to be right now..

[firebrand]

I never heard the term until Trump came along. If it existed before, it wasn’t used as widely. They are all anti-Trump because they think they or their father was smarter and higher-class than Trump.

It’s a “class” thing. They have conservative values but “God forbid we should be mistaken for those nouveau riche par venues.”

It’s very un-American in fact.