7. In early 20th century there existed large pantheon of reactionary thinkers: Heidegger, Schmitt, Eliot, Kipling, Yeats, Pound, Maurras etc
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8. The great reactionaries seem to have disappeared. There aren't many counterparts to Heidegger or Eliot.
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9. As against Heidegger & Eliot, what we have today are think tank conservatives, who are essentially just right-wing liberals.
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10. Where have the Heideggers & Eliots gone? Good question but But Douthat's answer (chased out of academia by liberals) not sufficient
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11. The great early 20th century reactionaries (Heidegger etc.) flourished because they had a social/political base.
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12. European right of early 20th century included both aristocrats (von Papen) & populist thugs (you know who). Heidegger fit in that space
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13. A Heidegger or an Ezra Pound could provide intellectual gloss to movements that still had some pretence to intellectual ambition.
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14. Far right movements now more purely populist & don't seek intellectual justification. Mussolini cultivated Pound. Trump mocks eggheads
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15. I didn't carry my twitter essay on
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16. Twosided problem with Douthat's position is he sees liberalism as optimistic & reactionaries as offering salutary pessimistic corrective
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17. Liberalism begins with doubt about virtue-creating regimes. It's built on pessimism, on "low but solid ground" (Strauss)
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18. Reactionaries, conversely, are not really pessimistic but rather romantic egotist insanely confident about ability to remake world.
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19. Older traditionalism (pre-French Revolution) just tried to maintain status quo. Reactionary mind more emotionally charged defence.
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