“Neoconservatives are neither neo nor conservative.” — Russell Kirk
Russell Kirk had a positive view of conservatives.
“Kirk’s view of “classical liberals” is positive though; he agrees with them on “ordered liberty” as they make “common cause with regular conservatives against the menace of democratic despotism and economic collectivism.”[14]”
His view of libertarians was extremely negative...
“He called the libertarian movement “an ideological clique forever splitting into sects still smaller and odder, but rarely conjugating.” He said a line of division exists between believers in “some sort of transcendent moral order” and “utilitarians admitting no transcendent sanctions for conduct.” He included libertarians in the latter category.[12] Kirk, therefore, questioned the “fusionism” between libertarians and traditional conservatives that marked much of post-World War II conservatism in the United States.[13]”