Anyone read this yet? What did you think...

Anyone read this yet? What did you think? We need real principled conservatives like George Will to combat the infantilism of Trump and his sycophants.

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if u think theres some honest, good conservatism somewhere out there that doesnt look like the current us situation, youre a sucker

trump is the logical endpoint of conservatism within a liberal capitalist system

>trump is the logical endpoint of conservatism within a liberal capitalist system
Could you elaborate? Why is that the case?

he is regulatory capture, personified; so, to the extent that the american right (dems included, given that our whol government is p right wing) extols the virtue of unchecked market forces, they are getting what they deserve in that respect

liberal capitalism seeks profit in media and culture by fracturing popular discourse and isolating people away from even an attempt at objective, collectively experienced reality; because of this, trump's brand of conservatism succeeds, even as it hearkens back to a totally incoherent vision of the past. kind of a funhouse mirror idea of conservatism, but thats what capital demands.

and, at the end of the day, conservatives who claim to be against trump (george here presumably included) are deep in the minority within their party. "conservative intellectuals" can attempt to steer the discourse back towards poise and respectability all they want, but at the end of the day they're, in their own way, responsible for a party that overwhelmingly approves of trump as a political figure. "never trumpers" are more or less just a myth generated by centrist media outlets so that they can profit off more perceived diversity of ideas within the shitshow theyre running.

>We need real principled conservatives like George Will to combat the infantilism of Trump and his sycophants.
"We" needed principled conservatives for 70 years. Trump is just the consequence of 70 years of consistent betrayal of Americans by "conservatives.

>given that our whol government is p right win
There is nothing "right wing" about selling out your race and shilling for Israel.

A tired man with tired ideas. A restatement of the same classically liberal hodgepodge we on the american right have been expected to bend over to since Meyer created his unholy and unnatural fusion of libertarianism and traditionalism. It's pretty surprising too considering that his first book "Statecraft as Soulcraft" was far more prescient in its advocacy for embracing some degree of statism to achieve conservative ends.

The future does not belong to men like George Will, but to right-wing statism and post-liberalism. You are better off reading Deneen or Willard-Jones

I assume she's referring to the decades of deregulation, the disappearance of unions and labor parties, indifference to antitrust laws, the lowering of corporate taxes, in a word, the general capitulation of the government to Wall Street and big business that began, most seem to agree, in the 70s. America is very liberal socially, very right wing economically. The economic policies Republicans and even more centrist Democrats currently deride as "socialist' are less socialist than the economic policies championed by ordinary conservatives of the 50s like Eisenhower. America has gone WAY to the right economically and consequently our wages have stagnated. Back when America had robust unions and regulations in place the rising GDP would invariably coincide with rising wages. Now GDP continues to skyrocket but hardly any of us see that money.

>Willard-Jones
Who?

There’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)