I love you both, but Dreher is right on this. The speeches are insane and not a sign of a confident political right.
Agree with you completely. Trump forged the populist right from sheer personality, but did not build an infrastructure of intellectuals, wonks, politicos, and organizers. That's the work moving forward. Channel the populist morale into competent leadership.
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Which of you is Arnie and which is weathers in this picture?
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The problem, I think, is that too many on the old institutional right sneer at the *people* of the populist movement. In my view, the populist base has the right instincts, but no leadership to elevate instinct into a disciplined, coherent, narrative-driven movement.
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True. I would say though, the populist rights more sane leaders dropped thier base (ie Tucker going back to his Liberal Hypocrisy bent) and ostisible post liberals like Dreher can’t abide anything so norm violating as populism.
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Is this vital morale building? Or something else. I’ve been wanting populist nationalism for years and understand it won’t be prettified. But I get the sense that a lot of these folks are attracted to being weird and aggressive and are likely to do that on the left in the future.
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I see a lot of “I was red pilled, then I got Sharia/CRT/wellness/all-meat-diet-pilled” in the future
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Yes. Also I think right populism has massive issues with racism and xenophobia instead of helping people like the working class (perhaps low income people too)? Populism for people not cultural strifle. Like
@oren_cass and@JuliusKrein.@Avik and others too.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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We don't have those people, because we don't need them. Nor will we ever. We are - like Trump - are people who actually DO things, as opposed to talking about thinking about doing things
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One of the Trump caravans was eighty miles long. Who needs "organizers"
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