New Right#Brazil

{{Short description|Form of right-wing politics that emerged in the 1960s}}

New Right is a term for various right-wing political groups or policies in different countries during different periods. One prominent usage was to describe the emergence of certain European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union.Hanley, Seán (2008). The New Right in the New Europe: Czech Transformation and Right-wing Politics, 1989–2006. Routledge. {{isbn|9780415674898}} In the United States, the Second New Right campaigned against abortion, LGBT civil rights, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), the Panama Canal Treaty, affirmative action, and most forms of taxation.{{Cite web |title=New Right |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Right |access-date=2022-08-15 |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en |archive-date=10 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211210030031/https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Right |url-status=live }}

History

New Right appeared during the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater to designate the emergence, in response to American style liberalism (i.e., social liberalism), of a more combative, anti-egalitarian, and uninhibited right. Popularized by Richard Viguerie, the term became later used to describe a broader global movement: those proponents of the night-watchman state but who also tended to be socially conservative, such as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Turgut Özal or Augusto Pinochet. 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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_j5YDgAAQBAJ|title=Far-Right Politics in Europe|last1=Camus|first1=Jean-Yves|last2=Lebourg|first2=Nicolas|date=2017-03-20|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0674971530|pages=122|language=en}} Anarcho-capitalism, a form of libertarianism that advocates for the replacement of all state institutions with private institutions,{{Cite journal |last1=Geloso |first1=Vincent |last2=Leeson |first2=Peter T. |date=2020 |title=Are Anarcho-Capitalists Insane? Medieval Icelandic Conflict Institutions in Comparative Perspective |journal=Revue d'économie politique |language=en |volume=130 |issue=6 |pages=957–974 |doi=10.3917/redp.306.0115 |issn=0373-2630 |quote=Anarcho-capitalism is a variety of libertarianism according to which all government institutions can and should be replaced by private ones. |s2cid=235008718 |doi-access=free }} is usually seen as part of the New Right.{{Cite book |last=Meltzer |first=Albert |url=https://archive.org/details/anarchism00albe |title=Anarchism: Arguments for and Against |publisher=AK Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-873176-57-3 |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/anarchism00albe/page/50 50] |quote=The philosophy of 'anarcho-capitalism' dreamed up by the 'libertarian' New Right, has nothing to do with Anarchism as known by the Anarchist movement proper. |url-access=registration}}{{Cite book |last=Vincent |first=Andrew |title=Modern Political Ideologies |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-4443-1105-1 |edition=3rd |location=Hoboken |page=66 |quote=Whom to include under the rubric of the New Right remains puzzling. It is usually seen as an amalgam of traditional liberal conservatism, Austrian liberal economic theory (Ludwing von Mises and Hayek), extreme libertarianism (anarcho-capitalism), and crude populism.}}

New Right by country

=Australia=

In Australia, the New Right refers to a late 1970s/1980s onward movement both within and outside of the Liberal/National Coalition which advocates economically liberal and increased socially conservative policies (as opposed to the old right which advocated economically conservative policies and "small-l liberals" with more socially liberal views).Verity Archer, "Dole bludgers, tax payers and the New Right: Constructing discourses of welfare in 1970s Australia." Labour History 96 (2009): 177–190. Unlike the United Kingdom and United States, but like neighbouring New Zealand, the 1980s saw the Australian Labor Party initiate Third Way economic reforms, which bear some familiarity to New Right ideology. After the John Howard Coalition ended the 13-year rule of the Hawke-Keating Labor government at the 1996 federal election, economic reforms were taken further, some examples being wholesale labor market deregulation (e.g., WorkChoices), the introduction of a Goods and Services Tax (GST), the privatisation of the telecommunications monopoly Telstra, and sweeping welfare reform including "work for the dole". The H. R. Nicholls Society, a think tank which advocates full workplace deregulation, contains some Liberal MPs as members and is seen to be of the New Right.Marian Sawer, Australia and the new right (Sydney: G. Allen & Unwin, 1982).

Economic liberalism is also called economic rationalism in Australia. The term economic rationalism was first used by Labor's Gough Whitlam.{{cite web|url=http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin/JournalArticles97/Econrat97.html|title=John Quiggin – Journal Articles 1997 – Economic rationalism|website=www.uq.edu.au|date=December 2015|access-date=15 November 2007|archive-date=20 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200420074615/http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/johnquiggin/JournalArticles97/Econrat97.html|url-status=live}} to describe a market-oriented form of social democracy, but its meaning subsequently evolved. It is a philosophy which tends to advocate a free market economy, increased deregulation, privatisation, lower direct taxation and higher indirect taxation, and a reduction of the size of the welfare state. 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 (the term wets was similarly used in Britain to refer to those Conservatives who opposed Thatcherite economic policies, but dries in this context was much rarer in British usage).Hugh Collins, "Political ideology in Australia: the distinctiveness of a Benthamite society." Daedalus (1985): 147–169. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024958 online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712151741/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20024958|date=12 July 2021}}

=Brazil=

The New Right in Brazil has grown sharply in recent years within population, intelligentsia, and academia. That is mainly due to a generalized discontent with the {{as of|2020|April|alt=previous}} left-wing government and its policies.{{cite journal|last1=Saad-Filho|first1=Alfredo|last2=Boito|first2=Armando|editor1-last=Panitch|editor1-first=Leo|editor2-last=Albo|editor2-first=Greg|title=Brazil: The Failure of the PT and the Rise of the 'New Right|journal=Socialist Register|date=2016|pages=213–30|url=https://www.academia.edu/20310392|access-date=31 August 2016|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124927/https://www.academia.edu/20310392|url-status=live}}

This new movement distinguishes itself from what is known in Brazil as old right, which was ideologically associated to the Brazilian military government, União Democrática Nacional (National Democratic Union), and Integralism.{{cite web|title=Manifesto de 7 de Outubro de 1932|url=http://www.integralismo.org.br/?cont=825&ox=2|access-date=23 October 2016|language=pt|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301043242/http://www.integralismo.org.br/?cont=825&ox=2|url-status=live}} It is identified by positive views regarding democracy, personal freedom, free-market capitalism, reduction of bureaucracy, privatization of state-run companies, tax cuts, parliamentary, political reform. It rejects "cultural Marxism", modern socialism and populism.{{cite web|title=Liberais, Libertários e conservadores, uni-vos|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2014/10/1526258-liberais-libertarios-e-conservadores-uni-vos.shtml|access-date=23 October 2016|language=pt|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124914/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrissima/2014/10/1526258-liberais-libertarios-e-conservadores-uni-vos.shtml|url-status=live}}

There have been two major phenomena relating to the rise of the new Brazilian right: the Free Brazil Movement, which has managed to bring together millions of people on demonstrations against the government in March 2015;{{cite book|last1=Saad-Filho|first1=Alfredo|last2=Boito|first2=Armando|editor1-last=Panitch|editor1-first=Leo|editor2-last=Albo|editor2-first=Greg|title=Brazil: The Failure of the PT and the Rise of the 'New Right|journal=Socialist Register|date=2016|page=225|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rfMWCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA225|quote=The upper middle class provides the mass base of the new right, for example, through the Free Brazil Movement (Movimento Brasil Livre), MBL, one of the groups leading the demonstrations.|access-date=31 August 2016|isbn=9781583675755}} and the creation of the New Party (Partido Novo) and Libertários, the first liberal party since the First Brazilian Republic.{{cite web|url=http://interlibertarian.altervista.org/INTERLIBERTARIANS/Brazil.html|title=Interlibertarians|website=interlibertarian.altervista.org|access-date=23 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210225140/http://interlibertarian.altervista.org/INTERLIBERTARIANS/Brazil.html|archive-date=10 December 2013|url-status=dead}}

Some Brazilian new-right thinkers are: Kim Kataguiri, and his movement Movimento Brasil Livre (Free Brazil Moviment), Roberto Campos,{{cite web|title=Biografia|url=http://www.academia.org.br/academicos/roberto-campos/biografia|access-date=23 October 2016|language=pt|archive-date=13 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713161950/https://www.academia.org.br/academicos/roberto-campos/biografia|url-status=live}} Wilson Martins,{{cite web|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1996/12/08/mais!/14.html|title=A certeza da influência|access-date=7 January 2017|language=pt|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124941/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1996/12/08/mais!/14.html|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,morre-o-critico-literario-wilson-martins,504535|title=Morre o crítico literário Wilson Martins|access-date=7 January 2017|language=pt|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124908/https://www.estadao.com.br/noticias/geral,morre-o-critico-literario-wilson-martins,504535|url-status=live}} Olavo de Carvalho, Luiz Felipe Pondé,{{cite web|title=Contra os comissionarios da ignorância|url=http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/luizfelipeponde/1158128-contra-os-comissarios-da-ignorancia.shtml|access-date=23 October 2016|language=pt|archive-date=12 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124917/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/luizfelipeponde/1158128-contra-os-comissarios-da-ignorancia.shtml|url-status=live}} Paulo Francis,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TKjfAAAAMAAJ|title=Dicionário da Corte |date=2011|access-date=23 October 2016|isbn=978-8571645714| author=De Sá, Nelson|page=9|publisher=Companhia das Letras |language=pt}} José Guilherme Merquior,{{cite web|title=Um gênio conservador|url=http://filosofia.uol.com.br/filosofia/ideologia-sabedoria/51/artigo333995-4.asp|access-date=23 October 2016|language=pt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921085954/http://filosofia.uol.com.br/filosofia/ideologia-sabedoria/51/artigo333995-4.asp|archive-date=21 September 2016|url-status=dead}} Bruno Tolentino, and Miguel Reale.

As a result of this movement, in the 2018 Brazilian election, Jair Messias Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil with 55% of the votes; his Minister of the Economy, Paulo Guedes, graduated from the University of Chicago, famous for its economically liberal school of economics.

=Chile=

The term New Right (Spanish: Nueva derecha) has come into mainstream political discourse since the election of Sebastián Piñera in 2010, when interior minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter used it to describe his government. Hinzpeter's introduction of the term caused a buzz among newspapers, politicians and analysts. According to a column published in The Clinic, the New Right is different from the old dictatorial right of Augusto Pinochet, in the sense that it embraces democracy. It is also different from the religiously conservative Unión Demócrata Independiente party, in that it is more open to discussing issues like divorce. According to the same analysis, the New Right is becoming increasingly pragmatic, as shown by their decision to increase taxes following the 2010 Chilean earthquake.Marcelo Pollack, New Right in Chile (Springer, 1999). {{ISBN?}}

=France=

In France, the New Right (or Nouvelle Droite) has been used as a term to describe a modern think-tank of French political philosophers and intellectuals led by Alain de Benoist. Another noted intellectual, who was once part of Alain de Benoist's GRECE, is Guillaume Faye. Although accused by some critics as being "far-right" in their beliefs, they themselves claim that their ideas transcend the traditional left–right divide and actively encourages free debate. France also has one Identitarian New Right group (which is connected with Thule Seminar in Germany); that is Terre et Peuple of Pierre Vial, who was once an integral part and founding member of Alain de Benoist's GRECE.Simon Bornschier, "Why a right-wing populist party emerged in France but not in Germany: cleavages and actors in the formation of a new cultural divide." European Political Science Review 4.1 (2012): 121–145. [http://doc.rero.ch/record/297782/files/S1755773911000117.pdf online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124937/http://doc.rero.ch/record/297782/files/S1755773911000117.pdf |date=12 July 2021 }}

=Germany=

In Germany, the Neue Rechte (literally, new right) consists of two parts: the Jungkonservative (literally, young conservatives), who search for followers in the civic part of the population; and, secondly, the "Nationalrevolutionäre" (national revolutionists), who are looking for followers in the ultra-right part of the German population and use the rhetoric of right-wing politicians such as Gregor and Otto Strasser. Another noted New Right group in Germany is Thule Seminar of Pierre Krebs.Michael Minkenberg, "The new right in Germany: The transformation of conservatism and the extreme right." European Journal of Political Research 22.1 (1992): 55–81.

=Greece=

Failos Kranidiotis, a Greek politician who had been expelled by New Democracy chairman Kyriakos Mitsotakis for expressing views similar to those of political rival Golden Dawn, founded the New Right party, based on national liberalism, in May 2016.Vasiliki Georgiadou, and Lamprini Rori. "Economic crisis, social and political impact. The new right-wing extremism in Greece." Anuari del Conflicte Social (2013). [https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/31970/10341-17289-2-PB.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712124942/https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/31970/10341-17289-2-PB.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|date=12 July 2021}} His 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.

=Iran=

In Iran, New Right and the term Modern Right ({{langx|fa|راست مدرن}}) is associated with the Executives of Construction Party, which has split from the traditional Right.{{citation|first=Tara|last=Povey|title=Social Movements in Egypt and Iran|chapter=The Rise of Social Movements in Iran since the 1990s|year=2015|pages=72–96|doi=10.1057/9781137379009_4|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1-349-67751-1}}

=Israel=

New Right is a right-wing political party in Israel, founded in 2018 and led by Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett. The party aims to be a party open to both secular and religious people. The party advocates the preservation of a strong right-wing in Israel.

=Netherlands=

The New Right (NR) was the name of a far-right/nationalist political party in the Netherlands from 2003 to 2007. The Party for Freedom (PVV), founded in 2005 and led by Geert Wilders, also is a New Right movement.{{cite book|author=Gerard Delanty|title=Identity, Belonging and Migration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1rMgCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA262|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=262|display-authors=etal|isbn=978-1846314537}} Since March 2017, Forum for Democracy is another New Right party in the Dutch parliament.

=New Zealand=

In New Zealand, as in Australia, it was the Labour Party that initially adopted New Right economic policies. Rogernomics involved monetarist approaches to controlling inflation, corporatisation of government departments, and the removal of tariffs and subsidies, while the party also pursued social liberal stances such as decriminalisation of male homosexuality, pay equity for women and adopting a nuclear-free policy. This meant temporary realignment within New Zealand politics, as New Right middle-class voters voted Labour at the 1987 New Zealand general election in approval of its economic policies. At first, Labour corporatised many former government departments and state assets, then emulated the Conservative Thatcher administration and privatised them altogether during Labour's second term of office. However, recession and privatisation together led to increasing strains within the Labour Party, which led to schism, and the exit of Jim Anderton and his NewLabour Party, which later formed part of the Alliance Party with the Greens and other opponents of New Right economics.Michael Peters, and James Marshall. "Education, the new right and the crisis of the welfare state in New Zealand." Australian Journal of Education Studies 11.1 (1990): 77–90.

However, dissent and schism were not to be limited to the Labour Party and Alliance Party alone. During the Labour Party's second term in office, the Opposition New Zealand National Party (popularly known as National) selected Ruth Richardson as Opposition finance spokesperson, and when National won the 1990 general election, Richardson became Minister of Finance, while Jenny Shipley became Minister of Social Welfare. Richardson introduced deunionisation legislation, known as the Employment Contracts Act, in 1991, while Shipley presided over social welfare benefit cuts, designed to reduce welfare dependency – both core New Right policy initiatives.

In the early 1990s, maverick National Party MP Winston Peters also came to oppose New Right economic policies and led his elderly voting bloc out of the National Party. As a result, his New Zealand First anti-monetarist party has been a partner in coalition governments led by both National (1996–98) and Labour (2005–08 and 2017–20). Due to the introduction of the MMP electoral system, a New Right "Association of Consumers and Taxpayers" party, known as ACT New Zealand, was formed by ex-Labour New Right–aligned Cabinet Ministers like Richard Prebble and others, and maintaining existing New Right policy initiatives such as the Employment Contracts Act, while also introducing U.S.-style welfare reform. ACT New Zealand aspired to become National's centre-right coalition partner but has been hampered by lack of party unity and populist leadership that often-lacked strategic direction.

As for Labour and National themselves, their fortunes have been mixed. Labour was out of office for most of the nineties, only regaining power when Helen Clark led it to victory and a Labour/Alliance coalition and centre-left government (1999–2002). However, the Alliance disintegrated in 2002. National was defeated in 1999 due to the absence of a suitable stable coalition partner, given New Zealand First's partial disintegration after Winston Peters abandoned the prior National-led coalition. When Bill English became leader of National in 2001, it was thought that he might lead the party away from its prior hardline New Right economic and social policies, but his indecisiveness and lack of firm policy direction led to ACT New Zealand gaining the New Right middle-class voting basis in 2002. When Don Brash became leader, New Right middle-class voters returned to National's fold, causing National's revival in fortunes at the 2005 New Zealand general election. However, at the same time, ACT New Zealand strongly criticised it for deviating from its former New Right economic policy perspectives, and at the same election, National did little to enable ACT's survival. Don Brash resigned as National party leader, being replaced by John Key, who was a more moderate National MP.

As for the centre-left, Helen Clark and her Labour-led coalition were criticised by ex-Alliance members and non-government organisations for their alleged lack of attention to centre-left social policies, while trade union membership recovered due to Labour's repeal of the Employment Contracts Act 1991 and labour market deregulation and the deunionisation that had accompanied it in the nineties. It is plausible that Clark and her Cabinet were influenced by Tony Blair and his British Labour Government, which pursued a similar balancing act between social and fiscal responsibility while in government.Roger Dale, "National reform, economic crisis and ‘New Right’ theory: A New Zealand perspective." Discourse 14.2 (1994): 17–29.

=Poland=

In Poland, a conservative libertarian{{cite news|title=Leader of Poland's Euro-sceptic party believes: "Women should not have right to vote."|url=http://sz-n.com/2014/04/leader-of-polands-euro-sceptic-party-believes-women-should-not-have-right-to-vote/|date=7 April 2014|access-date=27 May 2014|archive-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205165232/http://sz-n.com/2014/04/leader-of-polands-euro-sceptic-party-believes-women-should-not-have-right-to-vote/|url-status=usurped}}{{cite news|title=EU election: Polish campaign dominated by Ukraine crisis|author=Aleks Szczerbiak|url=http://theconversation.com/eu-election-polish-campaign-dominated-by-ukraine-crisis-25782|date=23 May 2014|access-date=27 May 2014|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303180102/http://theconversation.com/eu-election-polish-campaign-dominated-by-ukraine-crisis-25782|url-status=live}}{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-parliament-eurosceptics-idUKKCN0I920W20141020|title=UKIP, 5-Star welcome Polish radical to save EU voting bloc|newspaper=Reuters|date=20 October 2014|first=Alastair|last=Macdonald|access-date=5 July 2021|archive-date=27 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127004237/https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-eu-parliament-eurosceptics-idUKKCN0I920W20141020|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/17/world/social-issues-world/polish-meps-racial-slur-remark-sparks-anger/#.ViUt9ePouUl|title=Polish MEP's racial slur sparks anger|work=The Japan Times|date=17 July 2014|access-date=19 October 2015|archive-date=18 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818182701/http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/07/17/world/social-issues-world/polish-meps-racial-slur-remark-sparks-anger/#.ViUt9ePouUl|url-status=live}} and eurosceptic political party Congress of the New Right (New Right) was founded on 25 March 2011 from former political parties Freedom and Lawfulness (WiP) and Real Politics Union (UPR) by Janusz Korwin-Mikke. It is backed up by various voters, some conservatives, far left people who want to legalize marijuana and citizens who endorse free market and capitalism {{citation needed|date=August 2022}}.

= South Korea =

In South Korea, the South Korean New Right movement is a Korean attempt at neoconservative politics. The Lee Myung-bak government led by President Lee Myung-bak and the conservative Grand National Party is noted for being a benefactor of the domestic New Right movement.{{cite book|author1=Yin-wah Chu|author2=Siu-lun Wong|title=East Asia's New Democracies: Deepening, Reversal, Non-liberal Alternatives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EyXGBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT199|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|page=199|isbn=978-1136991097}}

=United Kingdom=

In the United Kingdom, the term New Right more specifically refers to a strand of Conservatism that Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan influenced. Thatcher's style of New Right ideology, known as Thatcherism, was heavily influenced by the work of Friedrich Hayek (in particular the book The Road to Serfdom). They were ideologically committed to economic liberalism as well as being socially conservative.{{cite book|author1=S. Lee|author2=M. Beech|title=The Conservatives under David Cameron: Built to Last?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l3paCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23|year=2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|pages=23–24|isbn=978-0230237025}}

=United States=

In the United States, New Right refers to two historically distinct conservative political movements.Frohnen, Bruce, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson (2006) American Conservatism: An Encyclopedia. ISI Books: Wilmington, DE. {{ISBN?}}{{rp|624–25}} These American New Rights are distinct from and opposed to the more moderate tradition of the so-called Rockefeller Republicans. The New Right also differs from the Old Right (1933–55) on issues concerning foreign policy with neoconservatives being opposed to the non-interventionism of the Old Right.{{rp|625}}

== First New Right ==

The first New Right (1955–64) was centered on the right-wing libertarians, traditionalists, and anti-communists at William F. Buckley's National Review.{{rp|624}} Sociologists and journalists had used new right since the 1950s; it was first used as self-identification in 1962 by the student activist group Young Americans for Freedom.Viguerie, Richard. The New Right: We're Ready to Lead. 1981, Caroline House, p. 53 {{ISBN?}}

The first New Right embraced what it called "fusionism" (an ostensible synthesis of classical liberal economics, traditional social values, and anti-communism){{rp|338–41}} and coalesced in the years preceding the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. The Goldwater campaign, which failed to defeat incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, hastened the formation of a new political movement.

First New Right figures:

William F. Buckley Jr., editor of National Review
James Burnham, anti-communist political theorist
M. Stanton Evans, journalist and author of Young Americans for Freedom's Sharon Statement
Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona and Republican U.S. presidential candidate
Frank Meyer, anti-communist libertarian and creator of the "fusionist" political theory

== Second New Right ==

The second New Right (1964 to present) was formed in the wake of the Goldwater campaign and had a more populist tone than the first New Right. The second New Right tended to focus on wedge issues (such as abortion) and was often linked with the Religious Right.{{cite book|last1=Gottfried|first1=Paul|last2=Fleming|first2=Thomas|author-link1=Paul Gottfried|author-link2=Thomas Fleming (political writer) |year=1988 |title=The Conservative Movement |location=Boston|publisher=Twayne Publishers|pages=77–95|isbn=0805797238}} The second New Right formed a policy approach and electoral apparatus that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election. 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. In elite think tanks and local community organizations alike, new policies, marketing strategies, and electoral strategies were crafted over the succeeding decades to promote strongly conservative policies.Arin, Kubilay Yado: Think Tanks, the Brain Trusts of US Foreign Policy. Wiesbaden: VS Springer 2013. The second New Right objected to a perceived decline in morality, including increased drug use, more public and open displays of sexuality, rising crime rates, race riots and unrest from civil rights protesters, and Vietnam War protesters.