14 Facts About New Right

1.

New Right is a term for various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries during different periods.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,022
2.

However, as Jean-Yves Camus and Nicolas Lebourg point out, this leaning had only a few aspects in common with the "European New Right" that had been emerging since the 1960s, more inspired by the conservative revolutionary Moeller van den Bruck than by the classical liberal Adam Smith.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,023
3.

The politicians favouring New Right ideology were referred to as dries, while those advocating continuation of the economic policies of the post-war consensus, typically Keynesian economics, or were more socially liberal, were called wets.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,024
4.

Term New Right has come into mainstream political discourse since the election of Sebastian Pinera in 2010, when interior minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter used it to describe his government.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,025
5.

In France, the New Right has been used as a term to describe a modern think-tank of French political philosophers and intellectuals led by Alain de Benoist.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,026
6.

New Right's views diverged from those of former Prime Minister of Greece Konstantinos Mitsotakis, whose legacy expressed the most important principle of its recently elected leadership, including Adonis Georgiadis, who had been a member only since leaving far-right Popular Orthodox Rally in 2012.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,027
7.

New Right is a right-wing political party in Israel, founded in 2018 and led by Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,028
8.

In Poland, a conservative libertarian and eurosceptic political party Congress of the New Right was founded on 25 March 2011 from former political parties Freedom and Lawfulness and Real Politics Union by Janusz Korwin-Mikke.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,029
9.

In South Korea, the South Korean New Right movement is a Korean attempt at neoconservative politics.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,030
10.

Thatcher's style of New Right ideology, known as Thatcherism, was heavily influenced by the work of Friedrich Hayek.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,031
11.

Second New Right was formed in the wake of the Goldwater campaign and had a more populist tone than the first New Right.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,032
12.

The second New Right tended to focus on wedge issues and was often linked with the Religious Right.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,033
13.

The second New Right formed a policy approach and electoral apparatus that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,034
14.

The New Right was organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the so-called "liberal establishment", which they viewed as a contributor to corruption and mismanagement of the federal government.

FactSnippet No. 1,581,035