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Conservatives at crossroads on gay marriage - Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman - POLITICO.com
Excellent news.
I favor this not so much because of its policy outcome - I fully believe liberty can be attained completely without the input of the Republican Party at all - but because it may lead to a new kind of American conservatism.
There will be a 'populist' revolt over this, no doubt. The Establishment will be called weak and irrelevant and tyrannical (oh, how like the hippies modern 'conservatives' are).
But maybe this time the Republican Establishment will behave conservatively and crush the populists utterly without mercy. Conservatism is hierarchical; it is deference; it is will-to-power. Populism - anti-elitism - is fundamentally contradictory to the true essence of conservatism, which is elitist, thoroughly individualist - profoundly pagan - noblesse obligé.
Fewer Reagans, more Bismarcks.
Excellent news.
I favor this not so much because of its policy outcome - I fully believe liberty can be attained completely without the input of the Republican Party at all - but because it may lead to a new kind of American conservatism.
There will be a 'populist' revolt over this, no doubt. The Establishment will be called weak and irrelevant and tyrannical (oh, how like the hippies modern 'conservatives' are).
But maybe this time the Republican Establishment will behave conservatively and crush the populists utterly without mercy. Conservatism is hierarchical; it is deference; it is will-to-power. Populism - anti-elitism - is fundamentally contradictory to the true essence of conservatism, which is elitist, thoroughly individualist - profoundly pagan - noblesse obligé.
Fewer Reagans, more Bismarcks.
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