Neocon will finally go out of fashion and I still won't know what the hell it means? Am I a neocon? Is Teddy Kennedy a neocon? (cuz he was a 'new democrat' so I guess anything could be possible)
Neocons are former socialists who left the Democrat party after 1968.It was started by Irving Kristol.This is in Wikipedia.
The prefix neo- refers to two ways in which neoconservatism was new: many of the movement's founders, originally liberals, Democrats or from socialist backgrounds, were new to conservatism; neoconservatism was also a comparatively recent strain of conservative thought, which derived from a variety of intellectual roots in the decades following World War II. While some (such as Irving Kristol) have described themselves as "neoconservatives", the term is used today more by opponents and critics of this political current than by its adherents, some of whom reject even the claim that neoconservatism is an identifiable current of American political thought.