The new right is the growing intellectual backbone of the Trump movement. After reading this article over the summer, I went on a deep dive to learn it. You need to know it too. It's not fringe. It's real and it's dangerous. 1/ Here's a quick primer. vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/i…
2/ At its heart, the new right represents a rejection of classic liberalism - the idea that individual rights, free but fair markets, and democracy best secure happiness. "A free life is hell on earth", one of their thought leaders wrote this weekend.
3/ The new right believes that humans require strict behavior constraints, and that government should be organized to impose these constraints through a type of Christian neo-theocracy. That's why the new right supports bans on abortion and homosexuality.
@ChrisMurphyCT Loki said something like this in "The Avengers"