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Politics [r]: The process by which human beings living in communities make decisions and establish obligatory values for their 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]: Add brief definition or description

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]: Add brief definition or description

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]

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]: (1926-2008) Among the intellectual deans of American conservatism, noted for erudite if polysyllabic expression; founder of National Review magazine and Young Americans for Freedom; cofounder of American Conservative Union; a devout Catholic, anti-Communism was his core belief and he worked with conservatives of many factions although he and Ayn Rand despised one another ^[e]
Frank Meyer [r]: Add brief definition or description
Ayn Rand [r]: (1905-82) Russian-born author of The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957); , considered the founder of a philosophical movement called Objectivism ^[e]