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Irving Kristol, "The Neoconservative Persuasion," AEI on the Issues, AEI, September 2003 (aei.org)
In recent months, media commentators and politicians alike have talked about neoconservatism at great length while only rarely bothering to define the term. AEI senior fellow Irving Kristol, the "godfather" of neoconservatism, makes an effort to define it as a "political persuasion" that manifests itself over time but is recognized only in retrospect. According to him, neoconservatism seeks to "convert the Republican Party, and American conservatism in general, against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics suitable for governing a modern society."
Neoconservatives, Kristol says, tend to be "hopeful, not lugubrious," and prefer Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan to Barry Goldwater, Herbert Hoover, and Dwight Eisenhower. Fiscally, ...
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