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Paul Gottfried is an Odd Duck

Really he is. There’s a spectrum on what I like to call the “Real Right,” from White Nationalists to paleoconservatives, to libertarians of various stripes, and Paul falls right in the middle, as a paleoconservative. The self-styled “neoconservatives” aren’t conservative in any sense of all, but are merely liberals who find themselves in real or imagined opposition to the liberal establishment. The differences between liberals and neoconservatives are like the differences between hogs and swine. Mostly terminological.Anyhow, there are lots of paleoconservatives around, but — and here’s why Paul is an odd duck — very few of them are, like Paul, Jewish. The fact is that the overwhelming majority of American Jews…