How to Use neoconservative in a Sentence

neoconservative

noun

• The neoconservatives have lined up against Trump, and many Democrats agree with them on certain issues.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Aug. 2017
• When the neoconservatives came on the scene in the late 1960s, the Republican old guard viewed them as interlopers.
  — Jacob Heilbrunn, The New Republic, 23 Jan. 2020
• Democrats, on the hunt against President Donald Trump, led the way, echoed by neoconservatives, always eager to pump up the next crisis.
  — Author: Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Feb. 2018
• Beginning in the 1970s, some of the writers and editors who became known as neoconservatives observed changes in the American elite.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 Aug. 2019
• Critics will sniff that this shows his own lack of imagination, or the influence of neoconservatives.
  — Timothy Stanley, CNN, 23 May 2017
• The whole line of attack recalled Irving Kristol’s adage that a neoconservative is simply a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2022
• The only missing ingredient to make the platform neoconservative was building a large military and a lower threshold for using it.
  — Shay Khatiri, The Week, 26 Mar. 2022
• The theory was adopted by many neoconservatives at the time, but many other scholars and specialists viewed the claims as exaggerated or dubious.
  — Adam Bernstein, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
• Only back then, the ideologues and fanatics were neoconservatives bent on invading Iraq and declaring an American Empire.
  — Henry Farrell, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2018
• Irving Kristol famously said a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 28 May 2021
• Trump’s infrastructure spending might please liberals, his defense hike might please neoconservatives, and his tax cuts might please libertarians.
  — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 26 Apr. 2017
• Neoconservatives applauded Reagan’s critique of the Nixon/Kissinger policy of detente (an easing of hostilities).
  — James Goldgeier, Washington Post, 17 July 2017
• Encouraging students to be what mocking neoconservatives call ‘politically correct’ has made our country a far better place.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2017
• For decades, Republicans aligned roughly around the heavy-handed foreign policy principles of neoconservatives.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Contrary to the perspective of both neoconservatives and social-justice advocates, Kleiman understood both crime and mass incarceration as serious problems.
  — Gabriel Rossman, National Review, 23 July 2019
• Using fame and social media, Trump managed to bypass many of the usual influential Republican party actors — neoconservatives, free marketers, and culture warriors.
  — Christopher Baylor, Vox, 6 Apr. 2018
• Good ol’ boys, neoconservatives, and liberals all honor democracy, freedom, markets, human rights, and various other abstractions.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• The kinds of Republicans most likely to find Trump repulsive include neoconservatives, immigration doves, women, and institutionalists.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
• The foreign policy adventures of the neoconservatives and liberal internationalists haven’t fared much better than economic policy or cultural politics.
  — Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2019
• Canonical neoconservatives, Wilsonian dreamers, crusaders for human rights and other adherents of American exceptionalism ended his active career in government in 1977.
  — John A. Farrell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• Against the neoconservatives, conservatives must oppose imperial adventures and protect the principle of national independence.
  — Alexis Carré, National Review, 18 Feb. 2020
• The neoconservatives and liberal internationalists who staffed previous administrations were sidelined.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018

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