that Middle America is too willing to "clamber aboard" a GOP bandwagon "and hosanna their way down the road to perdition," instead of creating a populist replacement that might preserve "some semblance of civilized order and liberty." In addition, while Paleos and Neos quarrel over Middle East policy, Paul Gottfried argued that domestic equality and the exportability of democracy are greater points of contention between them. He wrote that the neocons' call for "permanent revolution" exists independently of their beliefs about Israel, characterizing the Neos as "ranters out of a Dostoyevskian novel, who are out to practice permanent revolution courtesy of the U.S. government". Also, Paleos, while not wanting the US tied to Israel too strongly, freely disagree with one another about certain Israeli leaders. Pat Buchanan supported Yitzhak Rabin, while Gottfried, who criticizes "truculent [neoconservative] Zionism," admires Ariel Sharon. See also Managerial state References Further reading Paleoconservative criticism of neoconservatism Claes G. Ryn, America the Virtuous (2003) Claes G. Ryn, "The Ideology of American Empire". Orbis'' 47 (2003), 383–97. A longer and more scholarly traditional conservative critique. Zmirak, J.P., "America the Abstraction," A conservative critique of neoconservatism. Why do NeoCons hate France? Why real conservatives should be pro-France. Nation or Notion? by Patrick J. Buchanan Strauss & the Straussians by Paul Gottfried. Leo Strauss and History: The Philosopher as Conspirator by Claes G Ryn. History of United States isolationism Neoconservatism Paleoconservatism Political movements in the United States