Toward An American Revivalism
It’s time to say “goodbye” to conservatism.
by Scott McKay
August 11, 2021, 11:42 PM
To state the obvious, there is something going on out there on the Right which is a little different.
You see it clearly at the grass-roots level. It shows up brightly in the resistance to the latest round of COVID stupidity — mask mandates for school kids, vaccination discrimination in the workplace, and so on. But you’re even seeing it at the higher levels here and there.
What you’re seeing is that Bush Republicanism, to use one of the terms to describe it, is dead. It might still be twitching, mind you; the abject stupidity of the “bipartisan” infrastructure bill passing with 19 weak GOP Senators signing on demonstrates that it’s still showing spasmodic activity. But it’s off life support, and the prognosis ain’t good.
Something else has taken its place.
You can largely thank Donald Trump for that. Trump was hardly the only one who saw that the post-Reagan GOP mindset, driven as it was by think tanks and other organizations which had long since proven out Eric Hoffer’s famous maxim that “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket,” had outlived its utility. But Trump understood how to inject life back into the party. For all his faults, Trump reoriented the Right into something else, and now that something is larger than Trump.
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