Definition of "neoconservatism" []

• An intellectual and political movement in favor of political, economic, and social conservatism that arose in opposition to the perceived liberalism of the 1960s: "The neo-conservatism of the 1980s is a replay of the New Conservatism of the 1950s, which was itself a replay of the New Era philosophy of the 1920s” ( Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) (noun)

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• "The term neoconservatism was created by the socialist writer Michael Harrington in the early 1970s."
• "In other words, neoconservatism is a Jewish movement and Jews are responsible for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and all the problems which they have caused for all countries involved."
• "# Obama means well, but is utterly unable to work against the residual neoconservatism from the stay-behinds in the Pentagon."