Sam Iglesias
@sam
there’s a sense that today’s right was yesterday’s center/left and everything shifted left. but it’s also true that today’s right is yesterday’s left that finally realized what liberalism broke, what conservatism was trying to conserve and why.
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Daniel
@dmg
Kind of wish this were more the case. The American new right can’t seem to shake the Ayn Rand/neo-seasteading/accelerationist/libertarian hangover thing which compromises any critique of liberalism with a weird double down on individualism. The interesting George Grant/Wendell Berry/Patrick Deneen style conservative voices already seem marginal again. Or is it just my filter bubble…?
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Christian Montoya 🦊
@m0nt0y4
it might be your bubble, but it is the most interesting tension / infighting with the current "right." aside from the neocon old guard, there's a new strain of libertarian / techno-utopians alongside a new strain of protectionist / union-labor-friendly both existing under a single tent
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Daniel
@dmg
But how do the minority old style commonweal conservatives deal with the libertarian techno utopians without calling them out as liberals in every single policy discussion? And why do the techno utopians feel they have anything in common with the basically Red Tory “decels”?
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