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Meghan Daum
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The temptation to trade the cold showers of critical thought and self-scrutiny for the warm baths of membership in some kind of club (any will do!) is among the most natural--and most destructive--forms of human weakness.
The Terrifying Future of the American Right
What I saw at the National Conservatism Conference
theatlantic.com
7:52 AM · Nov 19, 2021
Meghan Daum
@meghan_daum
The temptation to trade the cold showers of critical thought and self-scrutiny for the warm baths of membership in some kind of club (any will do!) is among the most natural--and most destructive--forms of human weakness.
The Terrifying Future of the American Right
What I saw at the National Conservatism Conference
theatlantic.com
7:52 AM · Nov 19, 2021
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/
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Rachel bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. Shes worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee, was listed among the Most Influential Women in Washington Under 35 by National Journal, did a stint at the Heritage Foundation, and is now policy director of the Conservative Partnership Institute, whose mission is to train, equip, and unify the conservative movement. Shes bright, cheerful, and funny, and has a side hustle as a sommelier. And, like most young people, she has absorbed the dominant ideas of her peer group.
One of the ideas shes absorbed is that the conservatives who came before her were insufferably naive. They thought liberals and conservatives both want whats best for America, disagreeing only on how to get there. But thats not true, she believes. Woke elitesincreasingly the mainstream left of this countrydo not want what we want, she told the National Conservatism Conference, which was held earlier this month in a bland hotel alongside theme parks in Orlando. What they want is to destroy us, she said. Not only will they use every power at their disposal to achieve their goal, but theyve already been doing it for years by dominating every cultural, intellectual, and political institution.
As she says this, the dozens of young people in her breakout session begin to vibrate in their seats. Ripples of head nodding are visible from where I sit in the back. These are the rising talents of the rightthe Heritage Foundation junior staff, the Ivy League grads, the intellectual Catholics and the Orthodox Jews who have been studying Hobbes and de Tocqueville at the various young conservative fellowship programs that stretch along Acela-land. In the hallway before watching Bovards speech, I bumped into one of my former Yale students, who is now at McKinsey.
Bovard has the place rocking, training her sights on the true enemies, the left-wing elite: a totalitarian cult of billionaires and bureaucrats, of privilege perpetuated by bullying, empowered by the most sophisticated surveillance and communications technologies in history, and limited only by the scruples of people who arrest rape victims fathers, declare math to be white supremacist, finance ethnic cleansing in western China, and who partied, a mile high, on Jeffrey Epsteins Lolita Express.
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The Terrifying Future of the American Right (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Nov 2021
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DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)1. In other words, Trump
"Bovard has the place rocking, training her sights on the true enemies, the left-wing elite: a totalitarian cult of billionaires and bureaucrats, of privilege perpetuated by bullying, empowered by the most sophisticated surveillance and communications technologies in history, and limited only by the scruples of people who arrest rape victims fathers, declare math to be white supremacist, finance ethnic cleansing in western China, and who partied, a mile high, on Jeffrey Epsteins Lolita Express.
Projection is a funny thing Rachel. How long till the man you praise throw you back into the kitchen?