neocon
noun
neo·con
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Krauthammer spent his political youth as a liberal-ish speechwriter for Walter Mondale and ended up a neocon on Fox News. — David Remnick, The New Yorker, "Trump Clarification Syndrome," 23 Aug. 2019 Since November 8, 2016, in ever-evolving Democratic dogma, Russia has gone from a quaint obsession of neocon warmongers to an existential threat on the order of Climate Change! — Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review, "Democrats Are the True Election Meddlers," 15 Aug. 2019 Positioning the United States behind the rest, Trump portrayed America as a humiliated, subjugated dupe—and gave a new, more dynamic rationale to a stale neocon agenda. — The New York Review of Books, "Stephen Wertheim," 2 Jan. 2019 Late in the play, Strand introduces a third character, Brad (Brett Mack), a neocon who mostly is there to try to destroy Cat in a way that her gentler boss would not countenance. — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, "'The Originalist' at Court Theatre has a tricky job in portraying Antonin Scalia," 21 May 2018 The radical strain, associated with the neocons, called for a universal democratization, by force if need be. — Keith Gessen, New York Times, "The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio," 8 May 2018 So what is John Bolton: a neocon, paleocon, conservative hawk, or nationalist? — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, "Scarier Than a Neoconserative," 23 Mar. 2018 Twenty-nine-year-old April Lassiter, the Alanis Morissette of the neocons, plays in a rock band when not agitating for the Republican revolution. — Elinor Burkett, Harper's BAZAAR, "Kellyanne Conway Has Been Quietly Revolutionizing D.C. Since the Late '90s," 3 Feb. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'neocon.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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