I can't even tell what @DouthatNYT means by "conservative" in that column. Anyway, conservative thought in the US... https://twitter.com/ad_captandum/status/791293457515941888 …
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for the rich, including free international trade and more immigration Religious conservatism: anti-abortion, prayer in school, govt funding
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for faith-based charities, opposition to some of the left's social liberalism eg gay marriage, etc. Support for expanding military &foreign
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military intervention, ideas about spreading American democracy to everyone: neocons Aside from some mild libertarian elements,
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there's not much of a secular intellectual basis here. Most disastrously, the right got labeled (mostly correctly at the time) as the
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anti-science side due to the religious right influence. The right couldn't oppose the left on Darwinian grounds when it was simultaneously
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questioning the teaching of evolution in schools. Additionally, all opposition to the left's antidiscrimination agenda was dropped.
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Meanwhile the left was cooking up and perfecting Cultural Marxism as the weapon of choice against the right. The right would have a hard
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time arguing against the concept of white privilege without resorting to genetic differences. Of course the answer to this is not to try to
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rekindle the old conservatism that
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The answer is to attack the incorrect leftist assumptions about equality directly.
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I really want to know if
@DouthatNYT understands all this re the conservative intellectual basis.
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