How to Use neoconservative in a Sentence

neoconservative

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  • Then again, without Carter as the nominee, the neoconservatives who broke away from the Democrats might have stayed in the fold.
    — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Younger rightists dodge the war-taint by blaming everything on a ghoulish cabal of neoconservatives whose Wilsonian phantasmagoria once held their party in thrall.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 16 Mar. 2023
  • With war no longer entirely a hypothetical, neoconservatives portrayed Iraq as a proving ground for their larger mission.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • After years as intellectual insurgents within the Republican Party, the neoconservatives were suddenly elevated to an influential policy board in 1998.
    — Max Fisher, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The neoconservatives and liberal internationalists who staffed previous administrations were sidelined.
    — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2018

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