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Conservatism
Explanation:
The Republican Party is a conservative party generally speaking, nevertheless several tendencies are embodied by it.
Two main tendencies are part of the Republican Party: the Old Right and the New Right. The Old Right or Paleo-Conservatives are Constitutionalists, they reject any form of Welfare state and military interentions abroad unlike the NeoConservatives who favor state intervention in the economy and the policeman of the world role for the USA.
PaleoConservatives have become a minority after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the Vietnam War and almost no Republican politician of major importance embodied that trend, Ron Paul is a notable. NeoConservatives have been predominant and both war and Welfare have been well-accepted by the Republican elite.
In the eighties and nineties the Chrisian Right emerged with the impulse of people such as Jerry Falwell who created the Moral Majority in 1979, a Christian Right-wing organization or Newt Gingrich who was one of Clinton's fiercest opponents.
Nevertheless Donald Trump introduced a new style, though he criticized American involvement abroad as it was the main geopolitical agenda during the Bush and Obama presidencies, he was not formally a PaleoConservative. Despite his winning the Republican primaries, he was pretty much an independent since he depended on none except himself since he was rich enough not to be bought by any special interest unlike his main opponent and all the previous Democratic and Republican nominees before him. Trump was similar to European populism in his criticism of NAFTA and globalism.
