Right, from what I gather, paleocons are the original Americonservatives, they were dominant from 1776 to the mid 20th century.
They were predominantly WASP.
They were strict constitutionalists.
They wanted a free market intranationally, but protectionism internationally.
They were moderately social conservative, they prohibited abortion, gay marriage, certain drugs.
Some were more extreme, they prohibited alcohol, sodomy.
They were white, or civic nationalists and isolationists.
They supported states’ rights.
Neoconservatives are/were the W. Bush Era conservatives at the seat of global power, the “New World Order”. They used 9-11 as a pretext for global war and expansion, into the Middle East Oil Reserves. The Bush family had/have oil dealings over there to the present day which they derive their wealth. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheyney were part of the leadership trio. They lost most of their power when USA became disillusioned by the false justification “weapons of mass destruction” for war. Progressives destroyed the Neo-cons for this. The Neo-cons did not adapt to “Progressive” culture, because they lost loyalty among the Paleoconservatives. The two camps fell-out and became disunified, leading to the eradication of Neo-con political power. The Neo-liberals took over from them (Obama, Biden, Hilary Clinton).
Neocons came later in the 1960s.
They’re predominantly Jewish.
The Bush administrations were 100% neocon.
With Trump, we saw a bit of a resurgence of paleoconservatism.
Like Reagan, he was a mix of paleoconservatism, neoconservatism and neoliberalism.
I think you’d have to go all the way back to Eisenhower to find a true paleoconservative president.
Neoconservatives aren’t strict constitutionalists, they violated the constitution with their war on drugs and war on terror.
It’s not unconstitutional to criminalize certain drugs, but the way they conduct the war on drugs is.
At best, neocons are ambivalent or apathetic about the constitution, at worst, hostile to it.
Neocons are crony capitalists, they want fractional reserve banking, lots of corporate welfare and a little social welfare.
For the most part, neocons aren’t social conservatives, they’re social progressives.
Neocons aren’t white or civic nationalists and isolationists, they’re globalists, Zionists and imperialists, they want free trade, mass immigration and open borders for the US and protectionism, restricted immigration and borders for Israel.
They don’t support states’ rights, they undermine them.
What it comes down to is, neocons aren’t very conservative at all, what are they conserving exactly?
They’re global, progressive Zio-fascists and if the republican party can’t be purged of them, then it should be abandoned.
I’ll address libertarianism and neoliberalism later.