Justin Raimondo on the Neocons

Remembering "the only self-admitted neoconservative in existence," he notes that "to describe someone as a neoconservative is practically considered a hate crime in certain quarters – in neoconservative quarters, that is" — Irving Kristol, RIP. A one-paragraph history of the ideology:

What the neocons did was simply switch allegiances from the old Soviet Union to the United States, taking their hotheaded Trotskyist temperament with them – and finally aspiring to lead a world revolution with the United States government at its head. When George W. Bush announced the launching of what he called a "global democratic revolution," he was merely echoing the neo-Trotskyist rhetoric of his closest advisers and the intellectual movement from which they sprang.

Mr. Raimondo's 1993 tome Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement explains this history in detail.