Look in the mirror for an example of a Republican who embraces internationalism"
So now you're suddenly going to bury me under a mountain of nonsense words?
Seriously?
OK... well, by your own article's definitions:
- "Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States and the United Kingdom during the 1960s during the Vietnam War among foreign policy hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s."
- "Critics of neoconservatism have used the term to describe foreign policy and war hawks who support aggressive militarism or neo-imperialism.
Historically speaking, the term neoconservative refers to those who made the ideological journey from the anti-Stalinist left to the camp of American conservatism during the 1960s and 1970s.[5]"
Your long-long article does not provide any definition which allows the reader to distinguish between former Democrat "neo-conservatives" and traditional Republican conservatives.
I think we can make that distinction rather easily, as I've done here now twice before.
These are traditional Republican conservatives, not Democrat "neo-cons":
Continuing with your article:
- "The term itself was the product of a rejection among formerly self-identified liberals of what they considered a growing leftward turn of the Democratic Party in the 1970s...
... As a consequence they migrated to the Republican Party and formed one pillar of the Reagan Coalition and of the conservative movement.
Hence, they became Neo-conservatives.[15]"
- "During the early 1970s, socialist Michael Harrington was one of the first to use "neoconservative" in its modern meaning.
He characterized neoconservatives as former leftists – whom he derided as "socialists for Nixon" – who had become more conservative.[9] "
So, yet again, here are traditional conservative Republicans, not Democrat "neo-cons", and I'll add in some from our JV teams too:
