.@theamgreatness doing us a service here. Raise your hand if you think The Dispatch and Bulwark are primarily about economics. Now raise your hand if you think national conservatism is primarily about economics.pic.twitter.com/3rhXy6057K
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I'll bite. In 2015, Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard and Jonah Goldberg's National Review were the standard-bearers of mainstream conservative thought. In 2020, the Weekly Standard has evaporated and Jonah Goldberg is writing a Substack like every dude in Brooklyn.
And sure, those publications aren't primarily about economics, but you have to admit that their worldview, especially their economic ideas, is not popular now, even among conservatives. I am not a Trumper, didn't vote for him in 2016, but the change seems fairly obvious.
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I'm genuinely surprised by the hostility to
@oren_cass' project. He's saying "our economic policy should be oriented towards strong families and communities," and the old mainstream crowd responds "that's basically communism!" It strikes me as emotional, not scientific.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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More charitably, Chris, the problem is thinking that Bill and Jonah represent a monolithic view of the non-populist right--especially on economics, which isn't really the focus of either of them, but also on any other policy issue.
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The reformocons are different from the supply-siders are different from the libertarians. Within each group, there is lots of diversity. The MO of the national conservatives is to see a binary world on the right and to paint caricatures of everyone who doesn't join them.
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