What is meant by the term neo-con?

Question

Is this a legitimate term? I have heard this used in a number of ways and can’t determine if the term is a pejorative or a legitimate unbiased term. Is it always applied to a left versus right spectrum?

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Answer 1

In the US it’s typically used to refer to the brand of politics endorsed by George Bush and John McCain in the early 2000s.

Highly interventionist foreign policy

Globalization

Low tax rates

Minimal attention to domestic social issues

At the time it was used earnestly to distinguish themselves from the more nationalist and values-centric brands of conservativism, but it has since become an insult – branding “neo-cons” as warmongers and sellouts to globalist interests.