paleoliberal

[ pey-lee-oh-lib-er-uhl, -lib-ruhlor, especially British, pal-ee-oh- ]

noun

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

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such people or their views.

Other Words From

• pale·o·liber·al·ism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of paleoliberal¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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

From Salon

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

From The New Yorker

“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.”

From Washington Post

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

From Time Magazine Archive