A Lesson in Power
The lesson the Right must learn now—or it never will—is that power cannot be eschewed but must instead be used.
By Pedro Gonzalez
January 28, 2021
The unifying strand in conservatism as a movement and the GOP as a political operation is a superficial desire to limit and eschew power. This position is sloganized in exhortations against “big government,†against “socialism,†against the noxious fumes of power.
But movement conservatives, like their political counterparts, are quite all right with both the consolidation and exercise of virtually unlimited power, so long as it does not upset arrangements from which they benefit, or when the enemy is to their right.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott on October 23 welcomed Amazon at the grand opening of a new fulfillment center in Waco. Three months later, Amazon partook in a coordinated effort to systematically purge the internet of many right-leaning voters (i.e., people who might vote for Abbott), going so far as to boot Parler from its web-hosting services after Google and Apple removed the social media network from their app stores. Were Abbott sincerely concerned about the concentration of power in a few heavy hands, he would rescind Amazon’s welcome because the corporation is hostile to the very values Abbott, and the GOP at large, claim to cherish. Of course, he has done no such thing.
Even former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, supposedly on the bleeding edge of a new conservatism, wears the GOP’s blinders of corporate power. “The radical left’s solution is to impose government control and censorship from the top down,†she said while announcing her campaign for governor of Arkansas. “But their socialism and cancel culture will not heal America.â€
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