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paleoliberal
[ pey-lee-oh-lib-er-uhl, -lib-ruhlor, especially British, pal-ee-oh- ]
noun
- a person advocating a more extreme form of liberalism, especially in politics.
adjective
- noting or pertaining to such people or their views.
Other Words From
- pale·o·liber·al·ism noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of paleoliberal1
Example Sentences
The Times’ David Brooks also thinks Clinton is “best viewed… as a new paleoliberal.”
Clinton is no “paleoliberal,” a more than faintly pejorative label liberals would do well to challenge.
Vox’s Matthew Yglesias said that Clinton’s policy agenda amounted to a rebuke of neoliberalism and indicated a “paleoliberal revival.”
“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.”
Republicans are already sounding the alarms, portraying Gephardt and his "radical roster" of paleoliberal committee chairmen in the grimmest terms.
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