Old Right (United States)

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The Old Right, also called the Old Guard, is an informal designation used for a branch of American conservatism that was most prominent from 1910 to the mid-1950s. However, it never became an organized movement. Most members were Republicans, although there was a conservative Democratic element based largely in the Southern United States. They are termed the "Old Right" to distinguish them from their New Right successors who came to prominence in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Most were unified by their defense of authority, tradition, morality, religion, limited government, rule of law, civic nationalism, capitalism, social conservatism, anti-Communism, anti-socialism, anti-Zionism, and anti-imperialism, as well as their skepticism of egalitarianism and democracy and the growing power of Washington. The Old Right typically favored laissez-faire classical liberalism; some were free market conservatives; others were ex-radical leftists who moved sharply to the right, such as the novelist John...

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