New Right

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the New Right

  1. Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:
    1. (US politics) A conservative political movement formed during the 1960s and 1970s in response to the liberalism of the New Left.
      • 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
        Nevertheless, advocates of individual freedom not only continue to exist, but are increasing in number. Refugees from the Old Right, the Old Left and the New Left, they are organizing independently under the New Right banner of libertarianism. The birth of the New Right occurred when libertarians finally accepted the fact that they had been abandoned by the liberals, used and misled by other radicals and sold out by the conservatives.
    2. (European politics) The European New Right.
      • 2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:
        Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the (European) New Right (Nouvelle Droite), which dates to the 1970s and GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization).

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