Crossword clues for neocon
neocon
- Rightist, briefly
- Person who's moved to be right?
- One who's now right-brained?
- One who's moved from the left to the right
- One who's moved from left to right
- One who has turned right?
- One going right after the sixties
- Many a Bush II cabinet member
- Hawk, often
- Glenn Beck fan, maybe
- Former liberal, perhaps
- Former liberal, maybe
- Former lefty, perhaps
- Ex-liberal, maybe
- Erstwhile liberal
- Certain political pundit
- Certain political designation, for short
- Certain political convert, for short
- Certain ex-liberal
- Certain anti-Communist
- Beck fan, perhaps
- A supporter of the policies of President George Bush? (abbr)
- "Sweet ___" (2005 Rolling Stones song)
- Reader of The Weekly Standard, perhaps
- Converted liberal, informally
- Biodegradable pipe material
- Hawk, maybe
- Ex-lib, maybe
- Many a Bush military adviser
- Ex-lib, perhaps
- One turning to the right
- Many a George W. Bush supporter
- Former liberal, informally
- A right winger, Sebastian's taken aback by Macron's rejection
- Someone advocating a new form of democratic capitalism
- Hawk using gas to quell pacifist
- Recent rightist, familiarly
- Many an ex-lib
- Former liberal, for short
- Former liberal, briefly
- Modern Republican, perhaps
- Fox News analyst, often
- Converted lib, maybe
- Certain rightist
- Tea partier, perhaps
- Switcher from left to right
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1987, abbreviation for neo-conservative in the U.S. political sense.\nNeoconservatism is the first variant of American conservatism in the past century that is in the 'American grain.' It is hopeful, not lugubrious; forward-looking, not nostalgic; and its general tone is cheerful, not grim or dyspeptic. Its 20th-century heroes tend to be TR, FDR, and Ronald Reagan. Such Republican and conservative worthies as Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and Barry Goldwater are politely overlooked. [Irving Kristol, "The Neoconservative Persuasion," in "The Weekly Standard," Aug. 25, 2003]
Wiktionary
n. (context US English) a neoconservative
WordNet
n. a conservative who subscribes to neoconservativism [syn: neoconservative]
Usage examples of "neocon".
This is the straight neocon party, line, of course: If you deny that secular democracy is the destiny of every people, you are guilty of cultural snobbery.
Perle, Wolfwitz, and other neocons were kept on the margins of policy making.
The neocons in the White House and Pentagon were, from the first, listing China as a country with weapons of mass destruction that was poised to challenge U.
This view has become conventional wisdom in Washington, resonating not only with the neocons but also with the modernization theorists who have long dominated American campuses.