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- Aug 30, 2019
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- Political Leaning
- Socialist
I believe conservatism is dead or dying. Few can define it, and the right-leaning population actually doesn't seem to care. I think conservatism will be replaced with right-wing nationalist populism, if it hasn't been already, combined with far-left economic populism.
The modern conservative movement, having burned through traditional conservatism, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, and right-leaning libertarianism... will merge religious, ethnic, and social conservatism with left-leaning economic populism. It will be a farce; a con job; but I fear it will bleed or blur over into the progressive agenda in the way that secular atheism has been adopted by the Alt Right and Alt Light. The new modus operandi of the right isn't a battle of ideas, it's a subversive gateway infiltration into more successful populist ideologies.
The general population of any nation is more populist than anything. There is good populism, which appeals to the common interests and well-being of the people, and a bad populism, which appeals to common fears and bigotries of the people.
Donald Trump is just a taste of this; a preview of things to come. He's a fake populist with a corporate agenda. I fear that the real threat is from a merging of the far right with the populist left.
The modern conservative movement, having burned through traditional conservatism, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, and right-leaning libertarianism... will merge religious, ethnic, and social conservatism with left-leaning economic populism. It will be a farce; a con job; but I fear it will bleed or blur over into the progressive agenda in the way that secular atheism has been adopted by the Alt Right and Alt Light. The new modus operandi of the right isn't a battle of ideas, it's a subversive gateway infiltration into more successful populist ideologies.
The general population of any nation is more populist than anything. There is good populism, which appeals to the common interests and well-being of the people, and a bad populism, which appeals to common fears and bigotries of the people.
Donald Trump is just a taste of this; a preview of things to come. He's a fake populist with a corporate agenda. I fear that the real threat is from a merging of the far right with the populist left.