It wasn't just the Trotskyists that helped create the neoconservative movement in America, although figures like Max Shachtman certainly played a significant role. There were also a bunch of cold war liberals involved in the early neoconservative movement, most of whom left the Democratic party in the 1960's after becoming disillusioned with the Dems hard shift to the left and their unsympathetic foreign policy towards Israel.
It wasn't just the Trotskyists that helped create the neoconservative movement in America, although figures like Max Shachtman certainly played a significant role. There were also a bunch of cold war liberals involved in the early neoconservative movement, most of whom left the Democratic party in the 1960's after becoming disillusioned with the Dems hard shift to the left and their unsympathetic foreign policy towards Israel.