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The nationalist blogger Lawrence Auster had a nice term called "the unprincipled exception" which describes the kind of vague, tentative objections to progressivism that liberal conservatives make
I suppose the issue is I'd rather live with the unprincipled exceptions of liberal conservatives than the principles of someone as reactionary as Lawrence Auster. Fine to read him and pick out a thing or two, but application is obviously cut short by ... everything else he says.
It's the same with Sam T. Francis. You can find some insights useful for explaining modern politics as Brooks and Dougherty have covered in columns referencing him. But other than a topic for a weekly column; forget it, you're confronted by their frothing at the mouth racism.
The left is developing liberalism towards leftism as documented w/ Mill and other converts of that nature. I don't know that the right *has* to abandon liberalism altogether, it just has to apply a few critiques of it.
the problem is that it's hard to develop a principled critique of liberalism if you already accept its core principles. you end up arguing for what seems like ad hoc exceptions based on personal prejudice, which is not inspiring or even very appealing to many
On the contrary, I think "ad hoc exceptions based on personal prejudice" have proved very appealing to political masses, but I see your point on the actual principles of an intellectual tradition as opposed to a political movement.
sry, should have qualified my final statement. I find exceptions based on personal prejudice appealing as well, provided it's my prejudice. in the long run tho this lacks widespread intellectual appeal and isn't coherent enough to provide an alternative to liberalism
hence the common complaint that conservatives have failed to conserve those things that matter most and have instead negotiated a protracted retreat
The safe middle class suburbia of order and good-paying non-college jobs that so many rank and file right-wing Republican voters desire is certainly lost, but it seems foolish to pretend it was an long-held tradition in America, as opposed to a result of New Deal liberalism.
If you think I'm drawing up a strawman, feel free to point to broader decline in Christianity, community, etc. But I think a lot of right-wing voters saying "Paul Ryan hasn't conserved a damn thing!" are correct and yet have far less higher ambitions than you do.
I don't necessarily disagree with you here, except to note that both new deal liberalism and what republican voters desire are effects as well as causes
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