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His work is utterly Schmittian, and for him the enemy is the contemporary liberal regime, which he prefers to call, echoing BAP, “gynocracy.” Wolfe writes: “We live under a gynocracy—a rule of women. This may not be apparent on the surface, since men still run many things. But the governing virtues of America are feminine vices, associated with
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Trump has attempted to create a kind of patrimonial and clientelist regime that many commentators have likened to a mafia family.
John Ganz • When the Clock Broke
Stated simply, liberal democracy has emerged over the course of the last few centuries, often against the background of violent religious strife, to allow people with very different values and belief systems to live together in relative peace. The New Right rejects the possibility of deep pluralism at a national level and seeks to impose
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In addition to isolationism and economic protectionism, the paleoconservatives are known for their nativism in domestic affairs.
Laura K. Field • Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right
The problems arise when Crenshaw and others extrapolate to make more sweeping and totalizing claims—saying, for example, as Crenshaw did, that Christianity was the public religion, and the source of American public morality, and that the early Americans sought to establish “a nation whose political institutions, laws, morals, and cultural mores are
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The NatCon statement of principles was also notable for its strident social traditionalism and exclusive definition of the family (“The traditional family, built around a lifelong bond between a man and a woman, and on a lifelong bond between parents and children, is the foundation of all other achievements of our civilization”), its
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the MARs, who believed in “the duty of work rather than the right of welfare; the value of loyalty to concrete persons, symbols and institutions rather than cosmopolitan dispersion of loyalties,”
John Ganz • When the Clock Broke
And while traditionalists, taking their cues from Aristotle, Aquinas, and Burke, believed that man was naturally sociable and tended toward consensus, so long as there was the faithful transmission of an ethical tradition, Burnham saw only conflict. This bedrock belief in the “irrational” and violent core of man and the primacy of conflict over
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One of Yarvin’s most celebrated idea is that of “the Cathedral,” the provocative name he gives to the supposedly all-powerful institutions most beloved by the liberal bourgeoisie—namely, the media, government, and academia.65 Yarvin claims that these institutions exert a monolithic and hegemonic power over modern minds. The idea of the Cathedral is
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