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To: Nateman
Define ‘Neocon’.

Neocon is a term used to describe someone who's not an actual conservative but pretends to be a "new" version of one in order to hijack a conservative movement in part or whole, to redirect it to support the Neocons' agenda.

38 posted on 04/07/2026 3:20:29 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

That definition needs a definition of a Conservative.


39 posted on 04/07/2026 3:21:56 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Neo-con is used by many in these forums as a general purpose slur towards posters that generally favor a more interventionist policy against our enemies. It has been misused by conflating it with militarist or war hawks. The term was first used to describe former Great Society but also anti-Communist liberal democrats that left the democrats for their dovish pro-communist attitudes. Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and William F Buckley could be called war hawks cold warriors but they weren’t Neo-Cons. The Kristols and James Schlesinger were.


53 posted on 04/07/2026 5:16:36 PM PDT by Oklahoma
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