This is the best summary I could come up with:
A recent essay by Damon Linker in The Times profiled conservative intellectuals whose writing, he argued, helps explain where the MAGA right is coming from.
For example, Patrick Deneen’s “Regime Change” describes America thus: “Once-beautiful cities and towns around the nation have succumbed to an ugly blight.
Cratering rates of childbirth, rising numbers of ‘deaths of despair,’ widespread addictions to pharmaceuticals and electronic distractions testify to the prevalence of a dull ennui and psychic despair.” And he attributes all of this to the malign effects of liberalism.
It’s true that U.S. society has changed immensely over the past half-century or so, and not entirely in good ways: Inequality has soared, and deaths of despair are a real phenomenon.
OK, that’s something of a Big Apple-centric view, and not every U.S. city has done as well as New York (although it’s remarkable how many on the right insist on believing that one of America’s safest places is an urban hellscape).
But don’t claim, falsely, that society is collapsing because it doesn’t match your preferences or blame liberalism for every social problem.
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Because the current American right finds its roots not in the USA, but the CSA.
Not posting an archive link to a paywalled article just means I get all my opinion from the comments.
The cons never got over many things they lost - Nixon resigning, people who are not cishet white xtian men being given a fair shake and so on.
Because America is fucking awesome and they’re missing out.
We’ve got people of all creeds and none, food from places you heard of in the news, dogs and cats living together, the resurgence of organized labor, Lutherans and Jews and Quakers and Sikhs and Catholics all giving free food to who needs it, black dudes and white dudes cuddling, Hindu women dating French atheist women, legal weed, tiny houses, babies with four doting parents getting into someone’s legacy college, BBQs with vegan options, consensual weird porn, cops that stopped a fascist coup, wind farms, renewable energy cheaper than coal, neighbors sharing backyard garden vegetables, Loki on Disney+, teenagers with silly hair, some guys practicing kendo in the park, cognitive-behavioral therapy, Dungeons & Dragons becoming too cool for Wizards of the Coast to ruin it, secular solstice rituals, agricultural universities creating new breeds of tomato that are extra nutritious and you can just grow them on your apartment balcony, and lots of other great shit going on
And they were too busy watching “Louder with Crowder”.
