Great piece by friend and colleague @Joshua_A_Tait on the anti-democratic strains in conservatism. As he notes, they don't have to be dominant in the intellectual mixture of the right, but they often have been and clearly are right now.https://thebulwark.com/anti-democratic-conservatism-isnt-new/ …
I wouldn't go that far and I'm not sure @Joshua_A_Tait would either. Reducing conservatism entirely to a bad faith effort to maintain old hierarchies is, I think, excessively simplistic and tends to confuse different ideologies that fit under the larger umbrella of 'conservatism'
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There is, after all, on the right a libertarian strand that sets itself against what it views as the creation of a new aristocracy of 'enlightened technocrats,' viewing it as a retreat from the current more egalitarian order. E.g. T. Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed (1995)
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(As an side, the video's insistence that 'conservatives' were against this that and the other good thing is a bit simplistic. It is not hard to find a lot of very racist, very sexist, eugenicist progressives around the turn of the century advocating new 'scientific' hierarchies)
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Not saying that Tait and Danskin are saying the same thing, I just said one reminded me of the other.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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