0 someone whose politics are conservative in a way that is traditional, old-fashioned, or far to the right, especially as relates to social issues:
He had to brush aside ideological differences with social conservatives and even paleocons.
He appealed to both the newfangled unilateralism of neoconservatives and the old-fashioned nationalism of paleoconservatives.
1 having or expressing political views that are conservative in a way that is traditional, old-fashioned, or far to the right:
a paleoconservative congressman
the neoconservative and paleoconservative assault on the UN
Humberto Fontova, the Cuban-American paleoconservative author
The rider was attached to the bill by paleoconservative senator Strom Thurmond.
Paleocons are not generally interventionist, except perhaps during the Cold War.
The paleoconservatives are more explicitly racialist and anti-democratic than the neoconservatives, who continue to support immigration, civil rights, and limited government.
Pat Buchanan, who says proudly, "We are Old Right and Old Church," emerged as the leader of the paleoconservatives.
