palaeo-conservativepaleo-conservativeadj.n.

1984 Nation 20 Oct. 396 A few paleoconservative economists in academia have made careers in this numbers racket.

1996 J. S. Dryzek Democracy in Capitalist Times vi. 142 It would be hard to find a U.S. political theorist or public intellectual who would put the matter this bluntly, although hints may be found in the paleoconservative journal Chronicles.

2000 Economist (Electronic ed.) 4 Mar. Even the so-called ‘southern strategy’, focusing on white conservatives, was, some say, concocted in the paleo-conservative swamps of Orange County.

1987 G. Nash Heritage Lect. No. 136. 1 One thinks of last year's feisty ‘exchange of views’ among prominent neo- and paleoconservatives at the Philadelphia Society's annual meeting.

1993 R. Hughes Culture of Complaint i. 14 Instead of common ground, we got demagogues urging that there is only one path to virtuous American-ness: palaeo-conservatives like Jesse Helms and Pat Robertson who think this country has one single ethic.

2000 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 1 j The original neoconservatives aroused the suspicions of paleo-conservatives, who suspected them of being interlopers secretly wedded to liberal heresy.

1990 Washington Times 23 Oct. g4/4 American conservatism is a house with many mansions (and not a few broken windows these days), ranging from ‘cultural conservatism’ to ‘paleoconservatism’.

2003 National Rev. (Nexis) 7 Apr. The truth is that what is now called paleoconservatism is at least as new as the neoconservatism at which many paleos like to sniff as a newcomer.