neoconservative

The current entry: > Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism).

When ESR made that change, he had very visibly aligned himself with the neoconservative war movement.

He has been critical of American foreign policy, including both neoconservative and libertarian views as self-sacrificial.

But to interpret Z as A is much easier if we accuse ESR of being a neoconservative.

It doesn't matter if he referred to himself as a neocon (the parent never said that), simply that he backed the neoconservative project.

I've always equated them with neoconservative/hawkish Democrat ideology, lockstep allegiance to Israel, support for the invasion of Iraq etc etc.

He did align with neoconservatives on one issue that a lot of people fervently disagreed with neoconservatives about, but that doesn't make him a neoconservative.

Additionally they also work for a neoconservative think tank called Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) who seems to spend their time producing anti-China/Iran/Syria media for publication.

And if ESR isn't a neoconservative, and merely aligns with them on one issue that people care a lot about, then Z is much less strongly an instance of A.

I don't think there is any time (within relevant history, probably ever) when ESR thought he was a neoconservative, even if other people would call him one.

The author of the NYT article, John Bolton, is a card carrying neoconservative - a group that I think is motivated both by war profiteering and flawed ideology.

We see in Card the beginnings of the Neoconservative movement with all of its contradictions nearly fully formed: the claimed reverence for both God and war, the clashing support for small government and large military.

I think ESR's claims not to be a "neoconservative" stink of protesting too much.

Hackers political values, as stated in the jargon file, have politics: "Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative (hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism).

Maybe the "liberal-moderate" to "moderate-neoconservative" change was in fact a bad one.

Org, an internet-based neoconservative pressure group that was set up to attack MoveOn.org, a liberal pressure group that works on the web." Perhaps that explains MoveOn.org's attack on Facebook and Beacon last year...