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paleoconservatism

2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.

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Pat Buchanan

American politician and commentator — Nixon and Reagan communications director — who ran for president in 1992 and 1996 — whose 'culture war' speech at the 1992 Republican convention and opposition to free trade and immigration presaged Trumpism by 25 years.

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Samuel Francis

American paleoconservative political theorist who wrote Leviathan and Its Enemies — extending Burnham's managerial revolution thesis to argue that the middle American working class faces permanent subjugation under an alliance of corporate and government managers — and who was fired from the Washington Times for his white nationalist views.

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