re: #72 Irenicum

Exactly. There’s been a ton of academic studies about its history and its evolution. I find it beyond bizarre that some folks are actually trying to say it never really existed. Are some folks just that radically subjectivist and a-historical in their thinking?

I don’t know. Perhaps it was as I said before how it evolved into a slur of sorts to describe conservatives within the context of the Project for the New American Century, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, militarism, etc., during the 2000s. Neocon became the derisive word to describe what many called the Bush “regime”. There’s a sociological component and it depends on who uses it much like how the liberal label is sometimes used with negative connotations. But that would be its use in the pedestrian sense as opposed to the academic sense where it in fact still exists.