We cannot say that this firstly and even only emotionally authentic form of conservatism is not a conservatism at all.
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On a Tweet-Drizzle on Trump’s Honest Dishonesty
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Jeff Goldstein: The Alt-Right Is The Mirror Image Of The New Left – The Federalist
Vox Day concludes his alt-right manifesto by declaring: “The great line of demarcation in modern politics is now a division between men and women who believe that they are ultimately defined by their momentary opinions and those who believe they…
Jason Willick: The Campus Left and the Alt-Right Are Natural Allies – The American Interest
The PC left and the alt-right exist symbiotically with one another: Working together to exacerbate tribal loyalties, to undermine the legitimacy of the state as a political unit, to question the idea that Western institutions can really treat groups of people with equal respect—in other words, to…
Robert Zubrin: The Alt-Right Is Proof We’re In Late-Stage Socialism – The Federalist
Dugin’s endorsement of Trump is more significant than merely signaling the Kremlin’s appreciation of a useful idiot. Dugin is one of the principal philosophical theoreticians of the alt-right internationally, and his publications are regularly featured in such American identarian outlets…
Devoted and Selfless Consecration
The sacred essence of the American state is not a common topic of discussion, but the state or nation or country itself, or we ourselves, on behalf of itself or on behalf of ourselves, deems or deem it the proper topic in relation to the final questions.
The classics and the Constitution: The smokescreen of republicanism and the creation of the Republic – OUPblog
Neither Adams nor the authors of the Federalist Papers were classical republicans in either the Aristotelian, Sallustian, or Machiavellian sense of the term. In a way you could say, therefore, that the political theory of the Constitution and the ratification debates left…
Subtweet (American Conservative Eschaton)
With less and less semblance of temperamental conservatism, ever more self-destructively, nominally conservative Americans have sought in vain to immanentize as eschaton the non-immanentization of eschaton.
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The absolute evil for politics as politics is the introduction of the question of absolute evil into politics, as the dissolution of politics. This rule is of the same form as the prejudice of philosophy against the entrance of prejudice into philosophy.
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Sam Haselby: Why did the secular ambitions of the early United States fail? – Aeon Essays
In hindsight, American secularism has experienced both clear victories and stark defeats. The Anglo-Protestant heresy of making all members of the political community into Luther’s sovereign individuals has become something of an American orthodoxy. Who is more consistently certain that…
Peter Baker: Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism – The New York Times
Mr. Paxton, the fascism scholar, said he saw similarities and differences in Mr. Trump. His message about an America in decline and his us-against-them pronouncements about immigrants and outsiders echo Europe in the 1930s, Mr. Paxton said. On the other…