[quidnunc]

The term "paleoconservative" has come to mean something very specific; those isolationist, nativist, crypto-populist radicals who call themselves conservatives in order to give themselves a fig leaf of legitimacy, but who really have more in common with the anti-globalist anarchists than they do with real conservatives.

[petitfour]

Who redefined the term? When did they redefine it? I mostly read of self-described neo-conservatives defining paleoconservatives as being right-wing extremists and Nazis and other inflamatory names. So when did the term evolve? Forrest McDonald used the term in 1994. (I think.) And Forrest McDonald is none of the things I listed above. At what point did the redefinition take effect?

As I said, the whole debate is highly divisive.

[petitfour]

This is a fascinating subject for me. I think I'll have to do my Senior Project (12hr course) on this subject, even though the profs who will oversee such will most certainly be liberals. I shall attempt to trace the term, paleoconservative, and its evolution. I'll start here at FR. :)

[Austin Willard Wright]

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