Neoconservatism Is the Affirmation of Ideology

Russell Kirk's idea that "conservatism is the negation of ideology" should be kept in mind reading
Cas Mudde's remembrance of the man who gave us "an ideology that fused market economics, social traditionalism, and aggressive democratic interventionism against chosen authoritarian adversaries" — Neo-conservatism: Irving Kristol’s living legacy — and Richard Spencer's reminder that it was he who "conceived of his country’s identity as 'ideological, like the Soviet Union of yesteryear,' and argued that the U.S. would thus 'inevitably have ideological interests in addition to more material concerns'" — Was Irving Kristol a CIA Plot?