John Gray will talk your ear off (with a lot of justice) about the fragility and religiosity of liberalism but he has an annoying habit of dismissing anything *illiberal* as quasi-fascist. What does he want?https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9zvtf …
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Replying to @BDSixsmith @NoTrueScotist
I think that’s a young man’s view. Genuine rightist politics is anti-politics. Fascism arises from the right attempting to emulate the left. The right is like anti-static, a negative force, that removes error in the signal. It creates space for people to act. It does not propose.
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Replying to @tomxhart @NoTrueScotist
I think there's some truth to that but (a) there are still political necessities for translating thought into action and (b) even outside politics we can have political preferences, just as a neutral power tends to prefer one side over another in war.
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The right isn’t neutral. The right supports legitimate authority. It is the shield against politics. Politics in the West has grown progressively mob-based since the Reformation. That’s why we’re in a mess. The right makes no appeal to the mob or ideology. It simply acts.
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