PALEOLIBERAL Definition & Meaning

paleoliberal

[pey-lee-oh-lib-er-uhl, -lib-ruhl, pal-ee-oh-]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.

adjective

noting or pertaining to such people or their views.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

paleoliberalism noun

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of paleoliberal¹

First recorded in 1955–60; paleo- ( def. ) + liberal ( def. )

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The Times’ David Brooks also thinks Clinton is “best viewed… as a new paleoliberal.”

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Clinton is no “paleoliberal,” a more than faintly pejorative label liberals would do well to challenge.

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Vox’s Matthew Yglesias said that Clinton’s policy agenda amounted to a rebuke of neoliberalism and indicated a “paleoliberal revival.”

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“I am a paleoliberal, a supply-side infrastructuralist, a neomanifest destinarian, a numbers nut, a pro-natalist redistributionist capitalist,” he once wrote — “and still a hawk.”

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Republicans are already sounding the alarms, portraying Gephardt and his "radical roster" of paleoliberal committee chairmen in the grimmest terms.

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