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These are called Paleoconservatives.
-- Encounters, by Paul E. Gottfried
-- Suicide of a Superpower, by Pat Buchanan
The left has it's own equivalent, it is supposedly the weaker force, made up of those speaking truth to power in the name of the little man. Yet it has more or less generally won for the past 200 years and consistently won for the last 70 years on all social issues it has picked up. This is interestingly also true when it has very little support of the people or when the people are divided and it takes a generation or two for the education system and media to change things.
What do you call a weaker side that consistently wins? The stronger side.
This in itself is a quite potent source of power.
Actually now that I think of it a few non-paeloconservatives have taken such a stance. John Derbyshire's (one of the writers at secular right) 2009 book was all about this:
I so need to read this book.