New Right

For specific entities called "New Right", see New Right (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Alt-lite.

New Right is a label for various right-wing political groups, policies, ideologies and viewpoints that emerged in different countries during different periods of time. New Right's prominent usage was to describe the emergence of certain European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 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.

Within the US, the term was used to describe a more combative, anti-egalitarian, and uninhibited right following the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. Although this American brand of New Right had little in common with the "European New Right", both used the expression "conservative revolution" (but only the European New Right use the expression in a way similar to that of the conservative revolutionary Moeller van den Bruck).

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