In working on a longer post reflecting on Romano Guardini’s End of the Modern World it occurred to me how similar some of its analysis is to Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences. It also struck me how profoundly different these old traditionalist conservatives were to not only the loudest faux “conservatives” of our time, such as the people over at the Daily Wire, but also to the online Alt Right and its bourgeoning New Rightism. This New Right— which is more of a Post-New Right, since the “Right” that preceded it was itself a New Right that replaced the Old Right—has elements of intrigue for me. For instance, they are more willing to employ power against their political enemies; a feature of the Left that helped them to defeat the politically pacifistic conservatives. But my ultimate dispositions lie with the traditionalists more than with the tech-optimism of the Post-New Right.
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In working on a longer post reflecting on Romano Guardini’s End of the Modern World it occurred to me how similar some of its analysis is to Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences. It also struck me how profoundly different these old traditionalist conservatives were to not only the loudest faux “conservatives” of our time, such as the people over at the Daily Wire, but also to the online Alt Right and its bourgeoning New Rightism. This New Right— which is more of a Post-New Right, since the “Right” that preceded it was itself a New Right that replaced the Old Right—has elements of intrigue for me. For instance, they are more willing to employ power against their political enemies; a feature of the Left that helped them to defeat the politically pacifistic conservatives. But my ultimate dispositions lie with the traditionalists more than with the tech-optimism of the Post-New Right.