tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post428277705261080073..comments2023-06-20T02:25:36.578-07:00Comments on The Scholar's Stage: Conservatism's Generational Civil War T. Greerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04621529800248145193noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-87913215001250386912020-07-24T03:26:25.281-07:002020-07-24T03:26:25.281-07:00Welp, the Woke vs. the Fascists it will be, then (...Welp, the Woke vs. the Fascists it will be, then (with traditional liberals and the even tinier, in fact, well-nigh non-existent faction of traditional conservatives allying with them as they have no home in the other 2 camps) playing the role of the SD in '30's Germany. Though the Fascists overrate their chances. They seem completely clueless about their relative position.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12889325901147925533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-59878989038506224882020-05-02T08:18:37.892-07:002020-05-02T08:18:37.892-07:00the link in note [1] inadvertently points to anoth...the link in note [1] inadvertently points to another post on this blog instead of the article from National Reviewcostin.oproiuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00487586301552543679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-26553956178607444072020-03-24T23:57:27.591-07:002020-03-24T23:57:27.591-07:00Tanner, excellent essay. Nice illustration of And...Tanner, excellent essay. Nice illustration of Andrew Breibart's dictum that politics is downstream of culture. The 'conservative' political class generally is completely hopeless at cultural politics. Especially outside the US.Lorenzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00305933404442191098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-81211501605278770832020-03-24T13:21:29.194-07:002020-03-24T13:21:29.194-07:00You old style "conservatives" are going ...You old style "conservatives" are going to be next after we've handled the lefties.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-82497852614144494262020-03-18T15:50:47.806-07:002020-03-18T15:50:47.806-07:00You're losing because we're tired of you. ...You're losing because we're tired of you. Of your bowties, your think-tanks, your sedate articles in unheard-of magazines that you think are actual work for your TruConservative™️ cause. We're tired of your globalist, America-comes-second surrendering of the USA's job markets to everyone but the people who built the USA, who now get to watch H1B's take the jobs that they Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-53542579527408254872020-03-18T03:36:31.414-07:002020-03-18T03:36:31.414-07:00As somebody who spent the 2010s journeying from of...As somebody who spent the 2010s journeying from off-the-shelf Obama liberalism to some sort of reformocon David-Frenchism-for-agnostics, this puts into words quite a bit that I have been struggling to articulate myself.<br /><br />I think I would start by noting that <i>in practice</i> a movement is most defined by its enemies. What did Irving Kristol, William F. Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Daniel Winthrop Wickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12451338396608983530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7378807093271153119.post-38901135457662974612020-03-17T12:53:50.286-07:002020-03-17T12:53:50.286-07:00Thank you for the shout-out. I had no idea that w...Thank you for the shout-out. I had no idea that we were reformocons. I don't think I knew the word, or at least did not pay attention to it. American conservatism arose out of unique historical circumstances. The personalities (William F. Buckley, James Burnham, William Rusher, Whittaker Chambers, Frank Meyer, Barry Goldwater, RonaldReagan) were at least as important as any theory. When Lexington Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14413546490641321620noreply@blogger.com