neoconservatives vs new right

[Crumpets]

"Neo-con" I think represents two kinds of people. There are the 90s academics and think tank types who created a new theoretical framework for how to look at foreign policy in a unipolar US-dominated world. The Bush administration took that framework and ran with it so hard, they ended up flying off a cliff Roadrunner and Coyote-style. I've worked with a lot of these people and, even if they are still pretty bitter about the whole "Iraq would have worked out if we had done it right" idea, they are otherwise pretty rational and really do have a grasp of how much the Bush administration screwed up and how bad Trump is for the US in the long term.

Then there is the second group which is the "bomb them all and let Allah sort them out" who claim not to be neo-conservative imperialists, but who also 100% supported the Iraq War, are fine with going to war in Iran and North Korea as long as they don't have to go and seem to have no ideology other than repeating whatever the most prominent Republicans say at any given time. This group I find a lot less agreeable.