Neo-conservative. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Karl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Dan Quayle, and Ollie North are all what has come to be called "neo-conservatives" or "neo-cons." What marks them as distinct from old fashioned conservatives such as Barry Goldwater is that conservatives like Goldwater are much too liberal and progressive for them. I would not necessarily go so far as to say that neo-cons are crypto-fascists, but when you get that far to the right, the lines of demarcation do tend to get a bit fuzzy. Authoritarianism, elitism, militarism, erosion of civil liberties, a drive for world empire. . . .

Well, certainly not! This is America! It can't happen here!          Can it?

What some right-wingers will try to tell you is the words "neo-conservatives" or "neo-cons" refer to former liberals who have seen the light and have converted to the true faith, but that's pure hog wallow.

Don Firth