Kind of funny to watch an affectively polite center-right figure wring his hands about the realization that being on the right means, as it has always meant, that you actively favor things like brutal imperialismhttps://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1422573314934022147 …
Certainly, some on the right are imperialists. Some on the left are too - the term 'tankie' originated with hard-left support of what can only be fairly described as Soviet imperialism in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
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So while there is absolutely an imperialist right - and it is very much rearing its ugly face right now - I am not sure it is fair to say that being of the right definitionally means that someone supports imperialism, past or present.
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Say better then that the right is the natural home of colonial defense and apologia and right-wingers who do not favor those things have no grounds for being surprised by that.
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I think that's comparing apples and oranges, Western colonial rule is a discrete historical phenomenon and the global fight against it is and has always been a fight against the right
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Oh, I absolutely disagree. Western colonialism was violently defended in places like Uzbekistan by red armies - indeed, by *the* Red Army. I think we might fairly characterize Russian imperialism in central Asia as 'western colonial rule.'
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