re-reading the Sovereign Individual's Y2K doomerism, climate changes disimisal, and Osama Bin Laden apologia shows just how little the contrarian fringe has changed over the decades.

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Main recent change in the contrarian right imo has been large decrease in the level of respect for free market economics.

(Which I do think is net bad; free markets have flaws but lots of other things have flaws that are far worse)

The whole concept of "live and let live" as a principle for managing culture disputes.

it’s one of many good things the Right has left behind:
- free markets 
- federalism
- democratic norms
- moral norms
- global leadership