'80s moderate

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Republican moderates were a force in the '80s [J. Patrick Coolican | October 6, 2014 | https://www.startribune.com/republican-moderates-were-a-force-in-the-80s/278134051]

Moderate Republicans are becoming harder to find, or at least harder to find among the cohort of activists and elected officials who run the party.

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Moderate is an ideological category which designates a rejection of radical or extreme views, especially in regard to politics and religion. A moderate is considered someone occupying any mainstream position avoiding extreme views and major social change. In United States politics, a moderate is considered someone occupying a centre position on the left–right political spectrum.

Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s during the Vietnam War among foreign policy hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s.