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New Right orig. U.S.
[After New Left, new left.]
The name given to a political movement that arose in response to the challenge of the New Left, characterized by rejection of all forms of socialism, emphasis on traditional, conservative values with regard to the law, morality, and social consciousness, or (esp. in the U.S.) by libertarian, esp. free-market policies, and a desire to improve the public image of conservatism; the supporters of this movement.
1966Time 11 Nov. 90/3 The paper that claims to have discovered the New Left has recently discovered a New Right, rebelling against the upper-class gentility of Bill Buckley. 1970Guardian Weekly 12 Dec. 7/3, I belong to the New Right in Japan..and I agree with the New Left..that what the Japanese were taught after the war about American peace and democracy was not true. 1979London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 17/2 Is not this a paradigm of the policy of levelling-down which the New Right professes to abhor? 1985S. Lowry Young Fogey Handbk. v. 50 It is both paradoxical and predictable that Cambridge should have spawned a breed of thinkers, talkers and poseurs commonly..known as the intellectuals of the New Right.
Hence New ˈRightist n. and a.
1977Nation (U.S.) 5 Mar. 258 Those such as [Howard] Phillips who call themselves ‘New Rightists’ regard the free exchange of ideas as intolerable. 1978U.S. News & World Rep. 23 Jan. 25/3 Some New Rightists..see the Republican Party as ‘elitist’. 1981Time 14 Sept. 25/3 All of Helms' proposals may be overshadowed by more politic New Rightist initiatives. 1985S. Lowry Young Fogey Handbk. v. 51 A conventional Conservative vicar hurries to dismiss the New Rightists as ‘irrelevant—idiots who like dressing up and poncing about in wing collars’. |