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Ideology [r]: An organized set of ideas and ways of understanding the world, usually normative, and often on political, economic, ethical or philosophical subjects. ^[e]
Politics [r]: Activity that relates to the way in which society is governed, and the process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for its members. ^[e]
Politics of the United States of America [r]: Add brief definition or description
United States of America [r]: a large nation in middle North America with a republic of fifty semi-independent states, a nation since 1776. ^[e]
Restructuring of the U.S. political right [r]: A broad category of efforts to regain U.S. political dominance by various combinations of social, fiscal, and national security ideologies, generally seen as of the Right and possibly Republican Party (United States), as opposed to the center-left position of the Barack Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress ^[e]

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American exceptionalism [r]: An assumption that the United States, as opposed to the majority of nations, was created based on shared ideology rather than shared history, described by G.K. Chesterton as "set forth with dogmatic and even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence", and described by Seymour Martin Lipset as based on liberty,egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez-faire ^[e]
- American nationalism [r]: A belief that American exceptionalism extends into foreign affairs, but in several forms, such as Wilsonian American nationalism where the U.S. will benefit other nations by making them like it, or Jacksonian American nationalism tending toward isolationism ^[e]
Christian Right [r]: A number of contemporary right-wing political movements that are specifically Christian, which advocate socially conservative values in politics and the popular culture ^[e]
Compassionate conservatism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Fiscal conservatism [r]: A political position (primarily in the United States) that calls for lower levels of public spending, lower taxes and lower government debt. ^[e]
National security conservatism [r]: A political belief that the defense of the nation, from attacks from nation-states and non-national actors, is the primary responsibility of government ^[e]
Neoconservatism [r]: A political philosophy and ideology which combines many traditional conservative opinions with an emphasis on the importance of foreign policy and using American power to push democracy forward. ^[e]
Objectivism [r]: Philosophical system, created by Ayn Rand, which holds that reason and the knowledge of objective reality leads to an ethic of rational self-interest and libertarian capitalism. ^[e]
Paleoconservatism [r]: A branch of American conservatism that stresses tradition, civil society, classical federalism and the heritage of traditional Christian civilization, and opposed socialism, the Eisenhower "New Deal" and neoconservatism; Patrick Buchanan is prominent ^[e]
Social conservatism [r]: A political ideology that holds to a belief in following cultural tradition and traditional, often religious morality. ^[e]
Tea Party Movement [r]: Add brief definition or description
Libertarianism [r]: A political ideology that regards individual freedom as having the highest value in society. ^[e]
Neoliberalism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Strict constructionism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Nativism [r]: Interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants. ^[e]

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Russell Kirk [r]: (1918–1994) American conservative political theorist; wrote The Conservative Mind (1953), helping to spark a conservative revival. ^[e]
William F. Buckley Jr. [r]: Add brief definition or description
Frank Meyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ayn Rand [r]: Add brief definition or description

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