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New Right

Proper noun

Meaning

Various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries:
(US politics) A conservative political movement formed during the 1960s and 1970s in response to the liberalism of the New Left.

(European politics) The European New Right.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith. Mark Hatfield

Bennett, who led Jewish Home before leaving to form New Right, saw his fortunes revived when Netanyahu was unable to form a government and pushed through a vote to call fresh elections for September. Source: Internet

At the center of the New Right coalition formed under Richard Nixon’s election in 1968 is a government characterized by strong defense spending and toughness on crime. Source: Internet

Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity (Routledge, 2013). Source: Internet

When new elections were called for September, New Right joined with National Union and Jewish Home under the name Yamina, winning seven seats. Source: Internet

The New Right party announced on Monday that it would be running independently in the upcoming election in March, officially putting to bed the possibility of a broad alliance of national religious parties to the right of Likud. Source: Internet

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